[ale] interesting CPU fan issue

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 2 14:06:38 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 12:50 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Today I noticed, promptly at 3pm, that a CPU fan in one of my remote
> > boxes went from it's normal 3500 rpm to zero rpms.  However, CPU temp
> > and motherboard temp have remained in the same range (48c - 53c and 41c
> > - 43c respectively) as they have been for the longest time.  Every now
> > and then the CPU fan jumps up to ~2800 rpms for a few seconds, then
> > drops back to zero.   Sounds to me like the CPU fan has issues and needs
> > to be replaced... except why hasn't CPU temperature even shown the
> > slightest (greater than avg) spike?
> 
> Is it one of these smart fans that kicks on and off as necessary??

Not any more. ;-)  I think the consensus, after a few tests, is that the
thermistor went bad.   

-Jim P.




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