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Sophrosyne
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I am experience trouble with one of my coolers. I am using the Noctua NH-D14 as a cooler and Asus Rampage 4 Extreme as my motherboard. Every time I start my computer, one of the Noctua fans mountet on my heatsink won't start. I then proceed to turn off my computer and then after on the main power source. This time when I start it up the cooler is working fine, but when I restart it won't spin again; it only moves a tiny inch and then freezes. So it seems to only be working if I turn off my computer from the main source.

Note: Only one of my coolers does this and I have tried changing its input on the motherboard.

 

Can anyone help me?

 

Kind Regards Sophrosyne

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Try giving it a jumpstart, spin the blades a bit and see if it will start on it's own.

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It could be a dud fan. Does it start up once you are in your operating system or just never start, if it doesn't start to begin with.

It does start, but only when I restart my computer from the power source. A normal restart from the operating system won't do.

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It does start, but only when I restart my computer from the power source. A normal restart from the operating system won't do.

hmmm, did you try jump starting it like @Interfectorem said?

I think it could just be a dud fan. Which is very unlike a noctua, you can probably get it replaced if you contact them.

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I actually have a similar problem with the main CPU fan header on my Gigabyte motherboard. I determined it was not the fans (by switching out various fans) and decided to just run the AIO pump off of the cpu opt2 header and run the fans off of molex to power supply.

 

When I noticed the problem, I tried spinning the fan by hand, and it would begin spinning, but I don't know if it was due to the pull fan pulling on it, or if it was actually under it's own power.

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Try giving it a jumpstart, spin the blades a bit and see if it will start on it's own.

 

hmmm, did you try jump starting it like @Interfectorem said?

I think it could just be a dud fan. Which is very unlike a noctua, you can probably get it replaced if you contact them.

Yeah that actually worked! But before that both of the coolers were not spinning... What is this?!

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Yeah that actually worked! But before that both of the coolers were not spinning... What is this?!

 

No idea, but you could try switching both of them over to a Molex cable hooked to the power supply. Although then you wouldn't have any speed control, but they would work.

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Which converter would do that?

4 pin fan adapter - molex.

This might work but the computer will kick up a fuss every time you boot because nothing will be plugged into the CPU fan Header.

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Which converter would do that?

Depends on what type of fans they are, since it's noctua I'm guessing a 4 pin to molex adapter, however if you have the little Y splitter you might could use that and a 3 pin to molex. (I think the Y splitter from noctua is dual 4 pins on one end and 3 pin on the other end, could be wrong though)

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Jumpstart as in turning it on from the motherboard?

No, when you turn on your computer, and the fan doesn't turn on, give the blades a little push and see if that starts them up.

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It seemed to have worked

Excellent! :D

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Besides the Molex and manually jumpstarting them, can anything else be done to fix them?

Not that I know of.

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Maybe try to pump more voltage through your bios settings?

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Have you set fan profile in BIOS to something like silent or other? Because that setting made my 2nd CPU fan being stopped on startup and all the way until system is over 80% load. So my main question is, does the fan ramp up when you are doing something heavy? In that case, its more feature than problem.

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