New Chipset Fan Install problem on 'Asus A8N SLI' mobo

richard1973

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Hi, I need a little help with the chipset fan I just bought:

I bought the 'Akasa AK-210 Blue LED Chipset Cooler (HS-026-AK) ' from here for my mother board which is an 'Asus A8N SLI'. As the chipset fan that came with the board became very noisy and very slow.

The old fan was fixed by two harpoon type plugs going through mobo, and this fan I bought has an adhesive contact only. I'm having problems keeping it in place, the nforce4 chip seems to be slightly raised in the middle so i'm not getting the full 4cm x 4cm contact.

At present I've got it held in place by electricians tape, I'm not too keen on the idea that that is sticking across the motherboard (along some chip that I dont think is being used which is below the PCI-E card) it's more of a temp solution than a perm fix.

Could anyone suggest any ideas that doesn't involve sending mobo back (to another internet pc shop which I bought in Jan 2005) and ask them to have chipset fan replaced? Ideallly a stronger glue or adhesive I could apply would be my preffered option?

I'm not to keen on the idea of buying a fan such as 'http://www.pccasegear.com.au/prod2833.htm'

as not only is that quite expensive, I'm happy with the Akasa fan, its going at 5400rpm and its quiet and the blue glow looks pretty neat (besides the electricians tape blocking out half the light).

thanks in advance

Rich
 
thanks for the help. I've filled in a form from the Asus site asking for a replacement fan, if I hear nothing from that within a few days I'll ring that number.

Failing that, that AS5/AS ceramique is it just a paste i'd apply to the back of the Akasa AK-210 fan so I could stick it on? (I presume I'd peel off the current adhesive to put that on). If so where could I get this from?

Thanks for the replies everyone, happy xmas :)
 
Asus motherboard support is only by email BUT I contacted their Notebook support dept on 0870 1208340 who took my details and emailed me a form to fill in and email back to them with motherboard serial, address etc.
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I just tried that number but all I got was some woman who refused to do anything othe than notebook enquiries and said go to asus.com. However I did hear a reply from Asus a few days ago who emailed me an excel parts replacement form. But she gave me an email address that fired back a mailor daemon, so I replied back to her to chase up...and of course she didn't email me back.

I had a look on Asus's forum and there was a related thread made by some guy who had done the same steps as me, and the person who dealt with his enquiries was a Maggie from China, which was also the same person who contacted me. He also got the same problem, he was advised to email someone called Anji and he too got a mailor daemon. So that filled me with hope! Why isn't anything straight forward lol

I don't suppose you still have the email address to who you sent your form to?

thanks.
 
oops didnt realise that wasn't overclockers, sneaky website name! Great I think I'll go for that, it'll be next xmas before Asus get back to me. thanks for the info.
 
Yup I will do. I just been reading a forum (5 pages worth) I forget it's link, doh! And the majority of the people who bought it were happy, though some did find the heatsink did make it run a few degree C hotter than a fan. But all in all were very happy with the result. There was about 3 grumpy people who said they needed to have another fan source pointing at it to keep it cooled down though.

I'll keep this topic going with results (for whatever fan/heatsink option I end up going for).

cheers.
 
As a benchmark: I'm currently using that akasa fan I bought from here and that has the temperature at around 32-35 (cant check now I'm at work, working hard as you can see). Shame it's stuck on by tape, it's a nifty quiet fan that looks good and runs well.
 
Thermaltake A1899 Chipset Cooler (009159)

I found a few reviews on an american site: I think this is what'll I'll go for (reviews were for A8N SLI mobo's)



Pros: -Good fan overall, i gave it a high rating but im mostly gonna concentrate on the cons. -easy installating -Can mount on any MB preatty much, i mounted it on an ASUs A8N-E mb. -thermal grease included -South Bridge heatsync also included Cons: -Need to use the fan speed controller included in the package in order to get Low-Med-High settings. I tried hooking the fan directly to the MB adaptor and the fan goes to its 9000RPM status -Loud on anything but 5kRPMS right now my nforce4 chipset is at 27 celsius while running world of warcraft and a whole bunch of other apps in the background.


good fan had some troubles with the posts other than that im happy



Nicely done, lowered my temp by 2 degrees and stays stable. Recommended for high-end mobos with intel HT technology

good product-easy install-would recommend it to anyone

Installed it into an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo based system. According to online forums, the chipset fan on these boards is problematic. Mine started ''performing'' at 700 RPM's or so and then I found this... Installing this fan because of the push pin set up was a pain in the neck. Not because of ThermalTake... because of the mobo setup. Mobo had to be removed, pins clips and then this installed. Fairly painless install. The perfomance is awesome! It IS a little loud at full steam but it's better than frying your chipset. If you overclock, get it. You need it. You won't be sorry unless you don't have it...!

Great mounting. Little loud at full steam, but it sounds pretty cool. Like a jet. My computer loads video games a lot faster now.
 
thanks farooqm, much appreciated :)

hmm to get that new fan I was looking at or not, I guess I might as well waite and see what Asus's new one is like.

cheers for that.
 
It's an excellent motherboard (had mine since Jan 2005), its just the chipset fan is iffy. £5 can sort that out, i'm gonna go for the zander heat sink, seems to be a popular choice.
 
thanks Jak, I'd already taken out the mobo to remove the old fan anyway. I've temp got the Akasa chipset fan on.

I've just ordered:

Akasa AK-CB423-ADPT 4 - 3pin adapter cable (CB-012-AK) (for the delta fan below)

Delta 80mm Fan (EHE) (FG-004-DE)

Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Cooler (SY-007-ZA)

So when i've got all that in, I'll post the temp results... Or more problems that may occur heh.
 
quick question while I still got the akasa fan running on my chipset. It's not fully tight on the chipset so I presume the chip is getting hot (though asus probe gives no iregular temp) would the fan thats held in place by tape thats not quite touching all the time, becuase tape is getting loose so i have to keep adusting tape. Would this cause my pc just to restart itself? It's been doing it all day, mainly when I try to get the pc to do a few things, when ever it needs to load something that puts a slight strain on pc it restarts.

Its not like i have a low specs pc:

A8N SLI
1 gig ram
geforce 6600
athlon 3200 64bit
 
anyone know what these files are trojan remover finds:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\"ImagePath"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sptd\"ImagePath"

i dont know whether to delete them as i'm not sure what they are (in case these are to blame for pc restarting) Also IE seems to be restarting PC unless that's coincidence.
 
Anyone? Is the fan supposed to blow into the heatsink or out?

It should blow onto it I think, either way it doesn't matter, if you buy a 40mm by 40mm fan it'll do the correct job.

I hope the fan you bought has the correct pins to plug into the mobo?? Otherwise you'll have the first problem I had when I bought the Akas 40mm x 40mm fan, it wouldnt attach!!

I went for the heatsink as stated earlier in topic and it works a treat, MB temp is at 32 degrees. I also added that Delta fan 80mm x 80mm for case that blows in general direction off heatsink, it brought the temp down to 27. However the sound is on a par with a jet airplane!! So i've unplugged the fan as I don't need it, I may just have it plugged in during the summer if it's needed.
 
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