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PAVILION S3100N overheats
It overheats and shuts down. Very snall case. A friend says he thinks its a bad hard drive. I dont buy that. In fact i have googled that these pc's have that problem but i found no fixes that i havent tried already.
I think i can fix this but i need to hear from people who know more than i do to see if this is doable.
The cpu has a massive heatsink mounted sideways with a fan on it. The fan is very very fast and loud. The air flows from the fan thru the heatsink and out the back. I can use windows settings to have the fan come on and off enuf so that the problem is taken care of but its awful noisy. The fan is the type with 4 pins, there are no molex connectors at all and there are no other sets of pins on the mobo except for the one for the cpu fan. Cant use a different case as everything is proprietary, even the darn main atx connection is very small!
I propose to first find a fan that will fit the cpu but has only 3 pins so that it runs all the time but hopefully a bit slower and quieter. Then i propose, since the mobo only has the one set of pins for a fan, to splice into the wires for the cpu fan and connect a small fan that way. The fan will sit on the back of the case and expel hot air, same as the cpu\hs\fan does.
I believe, if the splicing is allowable, that that would solve my issues of extreme noise and overheating. Can i splice like that? I figure its ok as if there were molex connectors i have seen fans stacked on one line and this is only one extra small fan, fan being about 2 inche wide all around, thats the only size that will fit the space at back of the case.
Sorry this is so long.
Thanks for your help.