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Originally Posted by BoggyB
Yep. Check it's the right way round - there may be an arrow on it. It will have either come with screws, or your computer should have come with them. They usually are short countersunk philips screws.
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Had to buy screws. And Hewlett Packard has managed to screw me again. This fan is slightly larger than the fan that is supposed to go in there, so I had to secure it to the case at an angle...
I am really tired of HP and their proprietarianism.
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Hmmm. You sure it's not just in standby? In standby, the computer powers down most of the stuff, which may make it appear to freeze. Hitting the power button should bring it out of standby. When in standby the power light usually either goes a different colour or starts flashing.
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Actually... there was a setting in the BIOS I just changed today... it was set to something else for standby mode... but now it's on "BLANK SCREEN"... hopefully that will make the screen go blank in standby, instead of leading me to assume it froze.
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If the fan in the power supply is running flat out, then it's probably struggling with the load. You may want to look at putting a better one in - Antec stuff is quite good, and you should be looking at 430W or so.
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The whole thing is behaving itself now. It's blowing room temperature air now. Speaking of which after I installed the case fan it dropped about 12C inside the chassis.
Now why is the CPU fan speed suddenly half of what it used to be?
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How long does the POST take? 5 seconds? 10? 30? a minute?
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It seems to have gotten shorter, about 5 seconds after you push the power button before it will show the BIOS info.
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