Fan Failure, Probably CPU and maybe board as well.

Well when it rains it pours.

After leaving my computer for a few minutes last night I came back to notice that my aircraft sounding pc was unusually quiet.

About ten seconds after I entered the pc shutdown without warning.

Cracked the case - nice and hot in there and the smell of something cooking....

When I tried to power it back up P/S, HDs etc spin up but no bios, no beeps, no CPU fan spinning. Further tests of the fan revealled that it had failed and was no longer working.

So my Thermaltake Volcano 6 CU+ quit and now I'm out a CPU and probably a board as well. All attempts to get the board to boot have failed. My last resort is to try the CPU in a different board.

Joy, Joy, Joy.

Gary

 

Ouch - stuff happens huh? Some (many) Motherboards have a fan failure shutoff but if your PS and HDD are running, this is probably not the case with yours. Sorry to learn that Joy paid you a visit, but hope the damage was limited. I've also seen MB fan headers burn out without trashing an entire MB - try another fan connection if you have one available to you. Good luck - still enough time left to send Santa a wish list.

 

Fried computer brings revelation about speakers!!

Interesting sidenote ----

Some months ago I started a post about static playback in my spearkers. I intially thought the problem was solved by disabling digital playback through one of the cd-roms but the probelm soon returned.

Since I fried that system with the fan failure, I have a backup K62-350 box in its place. It has a fresh load of Win98 Se and no two components are alike between it and the fried system.

Guess what!! Still static coming through the speakers.

The monitor is different, even the desk is different. The only constant is the speakers.

So somehow the speakers are picking up some sort of electrical interference.

It's a Labtec Pulse 424 set. The left satellite plugs into the PC and the right satellite connects to the sub which connects directly to the wall. The two sattelites are connected to each other.

With the speakers hooked up to the wall and the PC it's practically impossible that the sound cables don't run against any other cable with A/C voltage running throught it.

Any thoughts on this? I've plugged the speaks straight into the wall bypassing the surge to no avail. This isn't something that occured when I first go the speakers and I honestly can remember when is started.

What gives???

Gary

 

I think you hit the nail on the head - grounding. I'm no electronic engineer and would be stretching it to claim amateur electrician status but the outlet itself may be the cause or if you have something like a light dimmer or fan dimmer, even on another independent circuit in close proximity, this could the cause. As to the ultimate solution, I'm clueless.