On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:57:47PM +0100, Nino Margetic wrote:
> > > problem was the chassis fan was disconnected.  Apparently it's got
> > > some sort of sensor that won't let the machine power up without the
> > > fan.
> > 
> > Just what I was going to say... the fan could also have gone bad, rather
> > than being disconnected. We've had to replace the chassis fan on several
> > Alphastation 200/250 systems, which showed the same behaviour.
> 
> *** Thanks for the info. I am away from the box until Thu, but I do recall
> that the chasis fan was rotating (tho' I can't say if it was rotating fast
> enough). Is this a "standard" fan or do I need a "special" one? Is there a
> way to test it given that I have a single box of this kind??

It might have a fan with a tacho in it. Three wires to the fan are a
good sign of this.

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Wilko Bulte  	 					wilko@freebsd.org
							Arnhem, the Netherlands