Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

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Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

I just recently built a new machine
Gigabyte 945
Intel Duo Core 2.33 E6550
8500 GT Nvidia pci express
1 Gb DDR 667
550 W power supply
80 Gb Sata drive
Windows XP SP2

This morning i put it all together and took it into the house to boot up. Everything booted up fine, it posted and everything. I installed the mobo drivers and video card drivers then left the house right after, ( i left the computer on as well when i was gone). I was gone for about 3 hours, came home, computer was still on running fine and sat right back down and started to install all my programs.

Then out of nowhere the cpu fan alarm goes off while i'm downloading AVG and i look into my computer and my heat sink fan isn't running anymore. So i quickly shut off the Computer and unplugged it. I looked inside to see if anything might of came loose but nothing.

Every time i boot up now the alarm immediately goes off and i look at the fan and it spins in spurts, like 3 seconds spurts. I have no idea what is going on, as i left my computer on earlier for close to 4 hours with no problems. Also to note this is the stock fan that came with the CPU in the box.
 
Re: Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

The best option would be to try and replace the fan. If the fan is not faulty then it may be the connector on the motherboard that is the problem. I had this problem before. My motherboard had two places to connect the fan to. See if your motherboard has something similar.
 
Re: Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

Check the warranty card whether the fan is covered under warranty.Generally they are covered.
But if not covered then u will have change the fan because without the fan CPU cannot be operated properly and there is every possibility of getting the CPU burned.
I hope that will answer Ur query.
 
Re: Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

Mr Cricket said:
You may be right but I'm tight and really don't want to fork out the money.
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I recommend you spend the money now and get the parts so that they work correctly. Whats worse, spending £20 now or losing a £400+ pc due to not paying that small amount of money ;).
 
Re: Heat Sink Fan just stopped working?...Help!

Thanks for the advice guys, I guess I knew deep down that replacing it was the way to go but was being stubborn.

Have a new fan now and it seems to be working a lot better.
 
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