Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> On 11/17/07 Derek W. Keoughan wrote:
>> Please clarify:  There's a single female plug with a + and - (red and 
>> black), and a second plug with a single wire (probably yellow)?  If 
>> so - 
>> why not plug them all onto the same male header on the motherboard?
> 
> This is so from the CPU fan, except that the + and - plug also has an 
> empty third position. There is a single wire plug from the CPU, but it 
> has empty first and second positions.
> 
>> With the end of the female plug facing away from you, and the 
>> alignment 
>> tabs pointing down, the wires are black, red and
"colour" - in some 
>> fans 
>> they're yellow, others are blue.
>>
>> If there's TWO + and - leads from the CPU fan, it likely requires a 
>> secondary power connection, or has a separate controller for the fan 
>> speed - a rheostat.  I've only ever seen this on a ThermalTake 
>> Volcano 
>> 9, which also had a temperature probe to attach _under_ the CPU, if 
>> you 
>> wanted to use that instead of the rheostat.
> 
> No, nothing like that, just the two three-position plugs as I described.
> 
> The CPU is taking up two MB "monitored" plug, so there is no
way to plug 
> in the PS monitor lead. That is the problem, I think. Why wads the CPU 
> cooler designed this way!

Slow day at the factory?  They had spare plugs to use up?

If you use a pin, can you lift the plastic pin that's holding the wire 
in place, and remove it from the single socket, and place it in the 
empty socket on the one that has two?  Move the solo one into the empty 
spot on the other plug.  That way, you'd have three wires in one plug, 
and thus only take up one header on the motherboard.

I often have to do this with Tyan motherboards - they usually have a 
2-pin header for the power LED, while the majority of cases have a plug 
with 2 wires on the outside of a strip of three, with the middle one 
empty - so I have to move one.

Hope this helps!

-Derek

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