Thread: How to remove chipset fan Asus deluxe a8n-sli

I have prepared the substitute fan but can't see how to eliminate the original fan. Are they pins or screws asset the fan and heat sink for the chipset?

I imagine you're inquiring about the CPU fan, not the chipset fan? Look at the physical where it explains placing the heatsink/fan on - and overturn the steps. I consider there are pins which have to be unlocked, then supplemented of place from the motherboard. You'll find this much easier to do if you eliminate the motherboard from the container. And it's easier to add your new cooler/fan that way also.

I'm supposing he is asking about the chipset fan, as the fans on that board are flat to failure.

I contain that board and tainted the fan on it too. I believe (forgive me if I'm wrong, it has been a while) they are coil pins that open when pressed through so they don't back out. You'll have to eliminate the motherboard and then it should be more or less palpable how to remove them. Be careful, you don't desire to break them as you may require removing them. Some pliers (to squeeze the back 'open' part closed) and a stable hand to push in then pull out the pins should do the trick.

It sounds akin to the fan you are inquiring about is like the chipset fan on the ASUS A8N-E motherboard, which is notorious for becoming noisy. Mine did too, but I was able to quieten it by infrequent uses of WD40. Today, however, the computer abruptly started resetting itself without observe and when I looked within I noticed that the fan had congested working. Rather than eliminating the motherboard to acquire at the pins, I employed a pair of needle-nosed pliers to break them off (bending them around gently until they broke, being cautious not to damage the motherboard or surrounding components) and then utilized an awl to push the enduring debris through the holes towards the back of the motherboard, where it fell down. With the holes now lucid, I was able to locate the pins of the new fan in them and push them through with the end of a screwdriver handle. The whole job was much easier than I had anticipated and was done in less than ten minutes.

Yes, that would effort well as long as you have new pins to install (which isn't always true for some aftermarket ones). And also as you indicate, if you haven't already gotten an aftermarket fan, call Asus as they will give you an better fan for free.

As it expelled, the seized-up fan was not the cause of the unexpected switch-off problem I was having; even after I had replaced the fan, the computer kept on shutting down right after starting up. I have three SATA hard drives, and I supposed that one of these might be causing the problem, so I did a chkdsk/R on them all. This did not solve anything. Then I disengaged one of the hard drives, and the computer started up and worked normally. If I reattach that hard drive with Windows XP running, it shows up in Windows Explorer and everything works usually, but if I try to start the computer with it already connected, the problem persists. I had a similar problem with system volatility before when I mounted a fourth hard drive, so I went back to three and all has been fine for the last pair of years, but now it seems I am down to two.

If anyone could offer me a clue as to why this should happen, I would be most thankful.

Hmm, that is very strange. These are just three regular drives correct, no raid and one is boot and others are just storage? Does it subject which of the drives you separate, or is it just you cannot contain in excess of 2 drives now? Also, what is you chipset (like nVidia nForce 4 or whatever).

If you're equal to attach the drive while system is operating, then I suppose that the AHCI driver is mounted and set in the BIOS. The more I look about this driver and its influence on Windows, the more I suppose it in drive troubles.

The boot drive would be the one with AHCI drivers mounted on it. Were the other SATA drives formatted after this driver was in place or maybe system on another computer and then used on this one?

I'd certainly physically remove the partition. Then remount and notice if Windows likes the drive now. Re-partition the drive, on this system and then re-format it. Might solve all your subjects.

Yes, three normal drives (no RAID). The system disk is unseparated and holds Windows XP and programs, a second disk has two dividers both containing data only and a third has two partitions, one having data and one holding a clone of the system disk made with Casper 5.0. The motherboard is ASUS A8N-E Rev.2.00, the chipset is NVidia NForce 4 Ultra NF-CK804, and the BIOS are ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Rev. 10.13.

After plugging the setup drive alone and in mixture with one or both data drives into various mixtures of the four SATA channels, I have found a setup that seems to work with all three drives now.

I can't memorize whether the non-system drives were layout after the system drive was set up or not, but I get Mongox's point that it would be enhanced to do it in that order. I will try reformatting them if the trouble persists.

At least I have a nice quiet chipset fan operating now, even though it wasn't the cause of the difficulty!

Thanks for your help.

Inspection the latter's physical; I don't think you have the AHCI option for hard drives. This is frequently seen as a BIOS choice or boot option referring to using your SATA drives in IDE mode or not. Non-IDE style is either AHCI or RAID. Appears you only have RAID. You might verify all the drive options starting on page 2-24 of the manual however. Among the features of a AHCI SATA drive are "hot" accessory of drives. However, turning on this feature in BIOS, if an alternative, will lead to problems booting and addressing drives. Solution is to re-mount Windows, loading the AHCI drivers just like RAID manager drivers, before coming to the first Win put in screen. This may not be a problem for you.

Tech note: You do have a divider on your system drive - a single one. Unpartitioned drives have no space owed and are un-formatted. Use Win's Computer Mgt Console to look at the physical allocation of your drives. Might be one with un-allocated space or an old non-Win divider that could foul things up. keep in mind if you change partitions, you erase all data.