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Post Date: 2010-09-27
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    Posted: 27 Sep 2010 at 5:46pm
I'm sort of a hardware noob, so there's that.

I've had my DS system for about a month now and decided to increase the ventilation a little bit.  I have a Coolermaster Elite 430 with the EVGA x58 LE board.  I bought a couple of thermaltake 2000 rpm fans to stick in, and now I'm a little confused.

Due to the way everything is jammed in the only place to fit an additional fan is on the side cover, so I did that and replaced the fan at the top of the case behind the cpu.  That one was plugged into the motherboard, the thermaltakes have the 4 pin connectors and I'm instructed to plug them into the power supply,   Fair enough.

I got both fans installed and didn't see where to plug them into the PS, it's the 'DS certified' TechNPS 750 watt.  I rummaged through the goodie leftover box and found a couple of the 4-pin-to-fits-in-the-PS wires.  Each one has two plugs on it.  I plugged both fans into the one adapter and lit it up.  Only one fan worked.  I then grabbed the other adapter so each fan had it's own plug into the PS.  Only one fan works, whichever one is plugged into the top plug on the PS.

I don't see that I have anything in the goodies box to convert the four pin plug on the fan to plug back into the motherboard like it was originally.

What am I doing wrong here?

TIA
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Posts: 6 		  Quote cruncher Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 Sep 2010 at 6:05pm
I mentioned I'm a hardware noob, didn't I?

Thanks for help I was going to get, but I had a crazy idea literally 30 seconds after posting and it worked.
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Ok Ok   soooo what was your  fix  Confused
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Originally posted by KJ

Ok Ok   soooo what was your  fix  Confused


Yeah, apparently when converting from the six pin plug on PS the two 4 pin connectors don't have the same things to offer.  Sticking the fan that didn't work into the other plug made her spin.

Pretty elementary to you fellas I'm sure. 
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Good to hear you got it figured out..Awesome.
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