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Is my cpu fan working?
Hi, just wanting to ask if my CPU fan is working or not.
The reason I am asking this is because I can't see the fan spinning around through the holes in my case.
Thanks.
Hi, just wanting to ask if my CPU fan is working or not.
The reason I am asking this is because I can't see the fan spinning around through the holes in my case.
Thanks.
You could open the case and look.
Or install a program that will tell you the fan's RPM.
If it weren't, the PC would likely have shut itself off as a safety measure.
If your cpu fan was not running your cpu would get quite hot quite quickly
You can check your cpu temp in your bios or use a monitoring tool or gadget to keep any eye on it, overheating your chip is not a good idea and will cause your system to crash/shutdown unexpectedly
May be a good idea to get temp monitoring prog as it will tell you if anything is overheating, fan speeds can sometimes be wrong/mis-interpreted by software as there is often multiple fan connectors on a mobo that are unused
That sounds fine even a bit higher is ok, if fans had packed up those temps would soon climb to 70/80/90 then shutdown goodnight, and wouldnt come back on until cooled down especially gfx card