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June 24th, 2005 23:00
FAN missing message during boot. How do i bypass?
Hello!
I have a dimension 4600 that was making a ton of noise because of the rear chassis exhaust fan. Something was wrong with it and it was going as fast as it could go all the time, making my tower way too loud for my office.
I removed this fan and replaced it with two others to provide adequate cooling for the CPU and tower. Now when i boot i get a message from the BIOS as it POSTS saying something to the effect of:
"previous fan failure, press F1 to contiune"
i check BIOS for a option to disable this check but i didnt see any. Is there a way to get my computer to not check for this fan so i can boot to the login prompt of windows XP without having to hit F1 to clear this message?
Thanks!
-Aaron
I have a dimension 4600 that was making a ton of noise because of the rear chassis exhaust fan. Something was wrong with it and it was going as fast as it could go all the time, making my tower way too loud for my office.
I removed this fan and replaced it with two others to provide adequate cooling for the CPU and tower. Now when i boot i get a message from the BIOS as it POSTS saying something to the effect of:
"previous fan failure, press F1 to contiune"
i check BIOS for a option to disable this check but i didnt see any. Is there a way to get my computer to not check for this fan so i can boot to the login prompt of windows XP without having to hit F1 to clear this message?
Thanks!
-Aaron
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volcano11
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June 25th, 2005 00:00
Once you remove the Dell proprietary fan, you will always get this message. There is no way to disable it in the BIOS. The only way to prevent the message from appearing is to put the Dell fan back in. This has been discussed extensively in the Dimension - General Hardware forum.
Steve
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June 25th, 2005 12:00