BSOD & reboots is chipset fried?

[davepjr71]

I have a DFI Lanparty UT MB that started making chipset fan noise a few months ago. However ,the fan still worked fin so I forgot about it.

 

A few weeks ago I started getting the BSOD but thought it had to do with my cpu and video card being overclocked and thought nothing of it. Especially after I put the CPU & video card back to standard clock speed.

 

However, over the weekend the BSOD came back in full force and I started getting random reboots. Then, I lost my video and when I rebooted it would come back but then the system would shut down or reboot after about 2 minutes.

 

I looked inside my case and noticed that the chipset fan is not spinning. Is my chipset fried? If so, can I replace the chipset or should I just replace the board.

 

Any thoughts?

[radodrill]

Might be worth a shot to clear the CMOS; if it'll then post you should be OK as long as you replace the chipset fan, the Evercool VC-RE is often used as a replacement.

[davepjr71]

That was the first thing I tried when the system booted-up with a blank screen. It didn't help. From looking on the DFI forum fan failure seems to be an issue. Looks like I'll be purchasing a new MB. I probably should have started inspecting things after the BSOD and not hearing the fan make it's whine.

 

Thanks for your input radodrill.

[MACarter02]

Try a long CMOS clear. You can search for that thread.

 

Chipset fan failure should be covered by warranty, so try RMA if you are still under warranty on the board. Good luck!

[davepjr71]

MACarter02,

 

I found the info here:

 

http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showpost.p...04&postcount=24

 

I'll give the long clear a shot tonight.

 

I'll hazard a guess and say that the chipset maybe going into a "protective" mode and shutting the board down due to the temp increase? And if so that doing a long CMOS clear would reset the chipset and allow proper boot-up if it is not damaged.

 

If this works I'll shut the PC down and go get a new fan at Compusa.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Oh, I'd have t osee what the warranty is on this board. I bought it 9/06.

[davepjr71]

I've contacted DFI and they are sending me an RMA number. Maybe I'll get a new board. Thanks for the help guys.