Okay well, where to start? I didn't really know where would be the best place to ask advice on this so I chose here and I would appreciate it very much if you could spend the time and listen to my current woes on my PC.
Basically, I bought a AMD athlon 2000 XP+ last November with the retail fan boxed with it, I also upgraded my tower, motherboard, power supply, RAM and graphics card.
Here are my system specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 2000 XP+
Motherboard: MSI KT3 Ultra2
Power Supply: Not quite sure, :| I think 300 watts+, i can't remember .
RAM: PC2700 DDR 256MB
Graphics Card: GeForce 3 Ti 200
Soundcard: Onboard.
Basically, up until mid-July this system was working fine until one day I switched my PC on. It sounded different, as if one fan had not come on and I was like Hmm.. Weird. Then the motherboard alerted me to the fact that my CPU fan had not started, of course, I opted to shut down my PC as I don't want the CPU burning out or something. I then pressed the power button again, this time the fan DID work. I went on holiday that week and I came back, I decided to look inside my PC and tied up any loose cables that could possibly be obstructing the fan and gave the whole thing a good clean.
Everything has been working fine and dandy for a long time till last Friday when it was booting up from cold and had the same problem. Yet again, I shut down, restarted the machine and the fan started to work. Same thing happened today, same process, same result.
Is my fan slowly shutting itself down? Is my power supply doing something weird? I mean, I thought about it, it could be that my fan isn't drawing enough power from the power supply at that moment to start up or it simply isn't spinning fast enough and the motherboard stops it.
Any answers would be appreciated, very much. Thankyou in advance.
