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!
> 
> Martin
> 
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How can that be? What brand of motherboard is it? I have 6 boards 
here,and ALL of them have,close to the cpu socket.a header marked as 
"cpu". Some of them have two additional headers,at least one has 4 
additional headers.This is strange.

Vic Green


 
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