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Intel cooling fan shuts down power supply
George Orwell wrote:
A friend gave me a PC what did not work. It has Pentium socket 478 and Intel cooler. When switched on, it shuts down after 1 or 2 seconds. I started removing things, and it was down to motherboard still stopping it. I put an ATX power supply tester on instead, and the power supply stays on. But this is no load. Out of curiosity, I connected the CPU fan to the power supply and bingo - it stopped. I had a few spare Intel fans and connected those instead. The power supply stays on. So I measured the resistance across the black and yellow wires of the killer fan and it reads open circuit (well greater than 2 megohm). All the good fans read 1800 to 2000 ohms with same meter. Weird eh? A high resistance drags down PS!!! No, a switching power supply controls voltage by limiting the "on time" power is sent to the filter system to become (more or less) DC. As load falls (high resistance) eventually the switching time becomes too small, the output waveform changes from a ripply DC to flat with spikes, and it shuts down before the crappy DC breaks something. Connect any load, and the DC gets better. NOTE: the symptoms sound like a short rather than an open, but many power supplies will not work feeding just a motherboard, it doesn't draw enough load at some voltages. A moderately good explanation is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchi...ly#Explanation Again, I am taking your high resistance measurement at face value, even though you would expect the system to start, then the CPU to shut down with no cooling. |
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