Terminal lack of geekery

[thessalian]

Argh. Argh. Argh.

So I plug everything in. I mean, seriously, the whole thing looks like a cross between something Lain might come up with on a bad day and some Lovecraftian horror. Still, it looks like everything's connected the way it should be, so I plug everything in and presto! Fans start going, things light up and go beep, the usual...

And then it tells me that the CPU fan is not functioning. Okay, fine. Except if the CPU fan isn't functioning, what's that thing sitting on the mobo going round and round and round making "whrrrrrrr" noises? What the bloody blue fuck is going on? All I know is that it stays switched on for about five seconds -- long enough for the screen to flash its lying, idiotic message about the fan not working when I can patently see that the fan is working -- and then switches itself off again. I don't know what I did wrong, I have no damn clue how to fix it, and all I know at the minute is that I am a total fucking spaz. "Geek-girl"? "Multimedia freak of nature"? Ha! Ha, I say!

So I am at a cybercaff. Again. At least the keyboard at this one is okay, and the prices are ... well, reasonable to a point, but I shouldn't have to do this! There is a functioning computer at home, thank you so very much. I just couldn't really be having with the whole deal of digging the wireless network card out of the Frankenbox and putting it back in Lenore, then doing the whole lead-plugging-in thing and starting the whole damn mess up again. So instead I go to this bloody cybercaff, where I will spend the next little while catching up on friends' lives (where's my last kuo_li installment, nadriel?) and doing my first alison_1669 entry in ages and ages and ages.

Arrrrgh.

Comments

[blimey85.livejournal.com]

I could have it fixed pretty quick if it was sitting in front of me... most likely the fan has one plug for power and one for connecting to whatever is monitoring the fan... see if it has more than one set of wires. My guess is that it's connected to power, obviously since it's spinning, but not to the monitor.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

Last kuo_li will be done today or tomorrow...

[nightskywarlock.livejournal.com]

make sure that the power lead from the cpu fan is plugged into the CPUFAN power jack on the board.

if the board doesn't see power draw off that line, it /will/ shut down in self defense - after all, that's the only way for it to know if the fan is running

[happypickle.livejournal.com]

Yup - this is mostly true for Socket A gear, since there's no way for the mobo to tell if the CPU heatsink is on... and if it's not 5 seconds is just about enough to make an early Athlon/Duron go foom...

Intel chips from the Pentium III on turn themselves off when they get too hot, so the shutdown isn't really needed there.

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

What they ^ said. Should be a pretty quick fix once I can get a look at it, if you don't have it figured out by then ;)

Still say you're a geek girl though.

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

Definately still geek girl, you know enough to know the computer enjoys messing with your head.