Help with Asus A7V

[Bender]

I just blew out my 3 pin connectors for all of my fans on my A7V. I could warranty the board but I'll be out of a motherboard for a month. Is there a workaround or a fix to this problem. Has anyone else ever blown out ther 3 pin connectors before.

 

[Goldwing]

There are adapters to hook fans straight into the 4-pin PS connectors. (If you are using fans which draw more amps than your mb recommends they are highly advisable anyway).

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Good luck.

 

[Bender]

Thats just fine for some fans but I have a 7000 rpm fann that runs much slower if I plug it into the psu. What is the voltage coming out of a 3 pin connector compaired to a psu connector.

 

[FRANK]

Global Win ships an adapter with the WBK38, along with "strongly" reccomending that you use it, so I would think that if you are having a problem with the RPM's dropping, you may need to look at your power supply.

BTW, how are you monitoring the fan speed without using the onboard sensor?

 

[Goldwing]

The motherboard supplies 12V. Mine has a max amps of 350mA or less (4.2 watts) I doubt very much that a fan turning 7000rpm is below 500mA (should be on the sticker in the middle of the fan.)

The PS provides both a 5V and a 12V source with the 3-pin adapter being hooked up to the 12V source....so as frank says if it isn't turning fast enough the prob is probably the PS. 8)

Oh yeah, I have read of several others blowing the fan headers before.

 

[Wega!]

I have just got my A7V back from RMA, cuz all my fan connecters stopped working. I don't know how I did it, I was just changing my fans, and then they all stopped working. Do u know how u did it?
Well, now i've got a new board, so I'm happy. I think u should RMA yours too.

 

[Bender]

Could you tell me how long it took asus to process your RMA. Asus told me it would be up to 3 weeks once they recieved it. I realy don't know what happened to my board. I was changing a heatsink and fan and poof, all the pin connectors stopped working.

 

[Wega!]

They said that it could take 3 weeks, and it almost did. It took 2 weeks and 5 days before I got my A7V back.
Did ur board say pooff when it happened? Mine didn't say anything....

 

[Bender]

Nope it just went poof and I said a lot of other stuff.