Any PC Experts???

[KeithB]

The CPU fan on my desktop PC starting sounding like an aeroplane engine so I bought a Arctic-Cooling Silent Fan. I think the idea is the fan is larger than the standard ones so it's runs slower and only speeds up as the temp increases, trouble is it's running so slow it's setting off the CPU fan alarm.
I can't find owt in the bios (AMI 3.3) to disable the alarm - any ideas??(other than buy a Mac ).

[Norman]

more of a fan problem than an alarm one keith, certainly dont want to disable the alarm ...... does the MB support the fan ?.. maybe its not giving it a signal so fan operates at minimum thinking all is well, or the reverse, maybe the MB getting a max signal from the fan so doesnt try to increase speed.

For reference I have two PC`s running at the mo (both P4)
one is 2680rpm at 35 C
the other is at 1870 rpm and 24 C

both have ASUS MBs (although completely different) and I use ASUS Probe to monitor

[KeithB]

CPU temp WAS fine Norman, 38 C and the fan WAS running at 900rpm, which is the idea so it's not as noisy. The alarm was only sounding when the PC was idle, the fan wasn't detecting any heat so slowed right down.

Well it WAS decided to flash the bios to see if the update would allow me to disable the alarm. Guess the bios update didn't work - blank screen now .

Busy swapping drives over to backup backup PC

£13 silent fan is now acting very silent in the bin.

[Norman]

haha I know the feeling Keith ............. well done on the bin bit......

[codseeker]

threaten it with a hammer it usually sorts itself out