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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