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Case fans spin slowly and RGB lighting remain on after PC shutdown when custom device plugged in
I wanted to add custom RGB lighting behind my monitor, and control it with a microcontroller.
Circumnavigating the monitor required 44 LEDs from a WS2812B strip. The power requirements were ~2.65A @ ...
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How to install addititonal fan to my case?
Hello I want to install an additional fan on my pc (Dell Tower 3620) and I can't find any port to it and there is not any additional wire from its power supply? Is there's a solution?
I Think of ...
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wiring of large number of fans
I want to bring power to 8 power-hungry PWM (4pin) PC fans. The manual for the motherboard specifies max power delivery of fan connection of 1A. There is just one "chassis" connection, the ...
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How to connect this seemingly 10 pin fan connector to my 4 pin CPU fan header on my motherboard
I want to connect the following 10 pin fan connector on a fan array in the front of my 1u server case to my motherboard. I have not found a way to do so and from searching online there are no 10 pin ...
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Speeding up a fan running in 'dumb' mode
I'm looking for feedback about how to get a computer cooling fan to spin with higher RPM. (It's a fully 'dumb' connection - this is a 120mm fan in an under-the-desk air purifier, so no thermostat or ...
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Computer not powering on, only short PSU fan spin and short GPU LEDs powering on
I've replaced my CPU fan on my desktop PC yesterday and got it to a point where it was working fine afterwards. Now I have just moved the desktop from the floor back to its location and it won't power ...
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Fan and power lights remain turned on after shutting down PC
When I shut down my computer, the screen goes black as normal, but the power light remains turned on, and the fan doesn't stop.
If I hold down the power button for 4 seconds, it turns off, but I ...
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What could cause a PC to wake up with blank screen, fan at full speed?
I have an HTPC build which uses the MSI G41TM-E43 motherboard with an Intel C2Q processor with 4GB RAM.
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/G41TME43#down-manual
About a week ago, I noticed the ...
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Something burnt out in my media PC, but not sure what
I have a simple compact media PC. Had it for a while and replaced the guts earlier this year (not the case or the PSU). I also moved it to a location that I now realize had much worse ventilation. It ...
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Power supply for just IDE hardrives and fans
here is what i am trying to do. i have several old IDE hard drives that i want to rig up as back ups. i am ordering IDE to USB adapters then running the USBs into a hub and from that hub i am plugging ...
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How do i swap fans?
I have a 2 pin adapter fan that I want to swap to a 3 pin adapter fan. I bought a "3 pin to 2 pin" adapter but when I connect the adapter to the 3 pin fan, the other end doesn't have pins that can ...
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Motherboard no boot or any fans turning on
Good day everyone!
Yesterday, I brought home my motherboard(biostar H81MG) together with the cpu(i5-4440) from my office and tried to make it my gaming mobo and processor. It's like a year old and ...
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Can a large power supply cause overheating?
I have a laptop which is just over one year old, and ever since I have had it, there have been some very serious overheating problems. The fan is almost always at full blast, which is incredibly loud, ...
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Computer making various noises and sometimes runs slowly
My computer has been making some very strange noises for several months now. The first noise it made was when I installed Speed Fan and after the second time of running the program, my computer made a ...
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Screen pitch black after random shudown, Gpu's fans full speed.
This morning I went to power up my pc and BAM. My screen is pitch black.
Noticed that Gpu's fans were at full speed. Switched to my moba gpu and well, it works fine.
I cant understand if it's a GPU ...
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