Re: Strange problem with sensors: 0 RPMs ?

From: J.A. Magallon
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 21:09:36 EST



On 2005.02.04, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I have a dual Xeon box. I got tired of the noise of the Intel boxed
> fans and bought a couple of Swiftech 'hedegehogs' and two ThemalTake
> fans.
> Board is an Asus PCDL and sensors chip is a w83627hf (heavily modified by
> Asus, I suppose, because it has 5! fan sensors). With the Intel fans,
> I got both rpm measures OK. With the new fans, the CPU0 fan insists
> it is stopped at 0 RPM. And I see it spinning. It is correctly plugged
> and the Xeon temperature stays nicely at 32º C.
> And the more strange thing is that the hardware monitor in the BIOS
> tells me it is spinning at about 2500 RPM !!! And the own BIOS says
> at boot that my CPU FAN IS STOPPED.
>

Sorry for the noise. Some google results I have not found before and
fanN_div did the trick.

Thanks.

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