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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Hello,
Some people challenge my theory/complaint/observation that holding the power button or flipping it/switching it leads to damage. I present EVIDENCE: HOLDING THE POWER BUTTON INCREASES THE CPU FAN SPEED ! Natural explanation: More speed requires more power ! Conclusion: MORE POWER IS GOING TO THE MOTHERBOARD SOMEHOW ! :P* STICK THAT UP YOUR BUM ! Seriously though: How do you explain it otherwise ? HMMMMMMM ? Yessss bring on your theories/knowledge people... because you looking like crap at the moment, saying things like: "power button does not do anything" ! Bye, Skybuck. P.S.: Yeah, and people from: alt.hardware.pc-homebuilt try not to make a complete asshole out of yourself. Especially people like Craig Sutton. This is after all a semi-serious posting and semi-serious science ! Your stupid asshole remarks are not appreciated ! Really ! Asshole remarks are only appreciated if you add a bit off knowledgeable flavor to it... see... just like me... otherwise it's just being nasty only... but science-nasty that's much better. Bye, Skybuck. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Yeah,
And don't stop just there ! The backplate fan starts spinning faster too, probably, if my memory serves me correctly. I am not gonna repeat the test, way too dangerous. Other fans were not connected, so it wouldn't surprise me, one bit, if everything starts spinning faster ! Definetly something that should be investigated by asus and other motherboard builders ! This could mean that holding the power button for 10 seconds to power it down ACTUALLY DAMAGES IT ! or could damage it on the long run ! BAD NEWS, REALLY BAD NEWS. Not gonna do that ever again. Next time: I simply use the back switch of the power supply. SCREW STUPID SOFT POWER ON/OFF ****, I HATE IT ( IT S STUPID IT S DUMB IT S DANGEROUS IT S NOT UNDERSTOOOOD IT SUX. Bye, Skybuck. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Skybuck The Destroyer wrote:
Hello, How about a knitting needle in each hand, you might as well dip hands in salt water beforehand for effect, then insert into wall power outlet. Now, does the fan spin faster? Just curious. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Also you might think it just spins faster.
No it doesn't just spin faster. It starts spinning faster and faster and faster and faster. That seems dangerous, bad, and not by design. I am sure now you understand just perfectly =D Bye, Skybuck. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
On Jun 2, 1:02 pm, "Egil Solberg" wrote:
Skybuck The Destroyer wrote: Hello, How about a knitting needle in each hand, you might as well dip hands in salt water beforehand for effect, then insert into wall power outlet. Now, does the fan spin faster? Just curious. Why don't you try that out yourself you lazy bum ?! You expect me, to do all the experimenting ! NO SIR BOB ! You gotta do some as well ! GET WITH THE CYBERSPACE/INTERNET PROGRAM DUDE. Everbody does a little, though some more than others =D Bye, Skybuck. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:03:22 -0700, Skybuck The Destroyer
wrote: Also you might think it just spins faster. No it doesn't just spin faster. It starts spinning faster and faster and faster and faster. That seems dangerous, bad, and not by design. I am sure now you understand just perfectly =D Many modern pc's have speed-controlled fans, so that they can adjust the cooling as needed and not make a lot of howling noise all of the time. They also have fans that give a "running" feedback signal. The BIOS manages the fans based on cmos settings and/or actual chip temperatures. Most such systems set the fans to max by default, often powering up full blast and throttling down later after other stuff is set up. "Faster and faster and faster" is really just ramping up to 100% on. My HP has redundant fans. Both are monitored for speed. If one fails, the other starts up. Whichever is in use is throttled to provide proper cooling, as needed, but low noise. The fans run full-on for a few seconds at powerup. The advantage of buying a fully-built PC is that all this stuff is designed in and the hardware and bios (redundant bios! and raid drives! and ecc memory!) take care of things. Relax. John |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Yeah so big deal, tell me something I don't know.
I have sorta two redundant fans: Power supply fan, and back plate fan - does heavy work, if it fails, power fan takes over. That still doesn't explain my observed behaviour. I tried to recreate the sticky button and fan thingy... but recreating these problems is pretty hard. I can now kinda understand why the sticky button problem escaped attention... it happens on rarely situations... not under ideal circumstances or even less circumstances... it's just one of those things that only show up during "real world usage". That's the ****ty part about it. I tried a second time recreating the fan thingy... but now only the cpu fan is connected... backplate is now disconnected... at the time it was connected... didn't hear the cpu fan spindle faster the second time... but I know what I heard the first time I am not gonna do asus's job that's for sure... let them figure it out :P* I am just here to complain about it and hint at possible short comings. Bye, Skybuck. |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
Skybuck The Destroyer wrote:
Hello, Some people challenge my theory/complaint/observation that holding the power button or flipping it/switching it leads to damage. I think that you need to increase the size of your tinfoil hat. Nicholas Sherlock |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWERBUTTON/SWITCH.
Skybuck The Destroyer wrote: Hello, Some people challenge my theory/complaint/observation that holding the power button or flipping it/switching it leads to damage. I present EVIDENCE: HOLDING THE POWER BUTTON INCREASES THE CPU FAN SPEED ! Natural explanation: More speed requires more power ! ********. This behaviour is quite normal. Buy yourself an inexpensive little voltmeter. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EW-Mini-DIGITA...QQcmdZViewItem Graham |
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Evidence: CPU FAN spins harder while holding the POWER BUTTON/SWITCH.
On Jun 2, 10:58 pm, Skybuck wrote:
Yeah so big deal, tell me something I don't know. I have sorta two redundant fans: Power supply fan, and back plate fan - does heavy work, if it fails, power fan takes over. That still doesn't explain my observed behaviour. I tried to recreate the sticky button and fan thingy... but recreating these problems is pretty hard. I can now kinda understand why the sticky button problem escaped attention... it happens on rarely situations... not under ideal circumstances or even less circumstances... it's just one of those things that only show up during "real world usage". That's the ****ty part about it. I tried a second time recreating the fan thingy... but now only the cpu fan is connected... backplate is now disconnected... at the time it was connected... didn't hear the cpu fan spindle faster the second time... but I know what I heard the first time I am not gonna do asus's job that's for sure... let them figure it out :P* I am just here to complain about it and hint at possible short comings. Bye, Skybuck. As some one pointed out the CPU fan and possibly the general fans & PSU fan (dependent upon age and cost of system) are controlled by the motherboard. Also as stated most systems fire up with the fans going full tilt, or at least working their way up to full tilt, then at some point the motherboard takes over and spins them down to a speed suitable for maintaining a comfortable temp. The reason for starting full whack, might be because the control circuits responsible aren't activated at the beginning, however there is another reason. I recall reading somewhere that the CPU is running at 100%, despite doing naff all, at power on, so it will be heating up nicely, hence having the fan going full tilt initially is probably a good idea. Tom |
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