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Old 03-20-2007
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case fan problem

A friend of mine recently added a new case fan to his dell e510. It isn't being detected so he has to hit F1 everytime he boots. Not a major thing, but annoying. The fan does indeed work, and much better than the one that came with it. Any idea how to make it recognized?
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Old 03-21-2007
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Sorry for the bump, but its been ~ a day. Any idea?
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Old 03-21-2007
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im assuning its 80mm-92mm right. Sounds weird, did he try using speedfan yet?
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Old 03-21-2007
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simply just dont connect it to the mobo jusst connect it to a controller or just have it at full speed if its not a noisy fan
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Old 03-21-2007
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will do. @supersmashbrada whats speedfan?
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look up speedfan, its a fan controller program, its free too, search for it at download.com
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Old 03-22-2007
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thanks everyone.
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