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Restart and make sure the fans are connected to fan headers

Have a look in the bios and see if there is an option to disable the fan warning message. By default the pc will detect that there is no fan connected to the cpu fan header, and that will give you the error warning. The option might be somewhere under the advanced options. Have a look at your boards manual and it should tell you.

 

 

Ok, so the fan problem has been dealt with. I had to find a creative way to route a fan cable from the front to the back of my case where the only system fan header is, but at least now it doesn't give that message anymore. I've checked the bios and my motherboard is pretty locked down (it's rather old since I'm the process of upgrading everything) otherwise I would have tried that for sure. Thank you both very much for your help! Also turns out I have an imminent hdd failure coming soon and the power cable wasn't plugged in completely which completely didn't help the situation..... but oh well, some of the joys of DIY the first time around.

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I just upgraded my computer and gave it a new fanless cpu heatsink and got a new case... I keep getting the error "system fan failed" before the os boots, but lets me go into  my os and do stuff. I have a case fan plugged into the cpu fan header, but that doesn't seem to be helping (I've tried it on and not on the cpu fan header) I have the other fan in my case hooked up to a fan controller, so I don't know if that is the issue. Please help me!

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I just upgraded my computer and gave it a new fanless cpu heatsink and got a new case... I keep getting the error "system fan failed" before the os boots, but lets me go into  my os and do stuff. I have a case fan plugged into the cpu fan header, but that doesn't seem to be helping (I've tried it on and not on the cpu fan header) I have the other fan in my case hooked up to a fan controller, so I don't know if that is the issue. Please help me!

Also I don't even know if I set up the fan controller right... I just know it's working the way it should(or so it seems). Fan controller is the one that comes with the define r4

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Have a look in the bios and see if there is an option to disable the fan warning message. By default the pc will detect that there is no fan connected to the cpu fan header, and that will give you the error warning. The option might be somewhere under the advanced options. Have a look at your boards manual and it should tell you.

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Restart and make sure the fans are connected to fan headers

Have a look in the bios and see if there is an option to disable the fan warning message. By default the pc will detect that there is no fan connected to the cpu fan header, and that will give you the error warning. The option might be somewhere under the advanced options. Have a look at your boards manual and it should tell you.

 

 

Ok, so the fan problem has been dealt with. I had to find a creative way to route a fan cable from the front to the back of my case where the only system fan header is, but at least now it doesn't give that message anymore. I've checked the bios and my motherboard is pretty locked down (it's rather old since I'm the process of upgrading everything) otherwise I would have tried that for sure. Thank you both very much for your help! Also turns out I have an imminent hdd failure coming soon and the power cable wasn't plugged in completely which completely didn't help the situation..... but oh well, some of the joys of DIY the first time around.

Evil exists where good men fail to act.

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