old dell 3000 fan problem

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I have an older Dell 3000 desktop that I kept getting error about fan when booting. I removed the cover and the fan will try and run then stop. I have several of these 2400, 2600 and 3000 computers laying around so I removed the fan from one and tried it on the 3000. It will not work. I connected the fan to one of the others I have and it works so its not the fan.  I am assuming the motherboard pin is the problem. Has anyone ever tried to make a fan work connecting to the power supply? Is there a way to disable the bios error so I will not get the fan error when booting. I just hate to scrap this computer because it still works great. I guess if I had to I would swap the motherboard from a 2400 and use it that way. The cases on the ones I have are not in good shape or I would just use one of them and swap my hard drive and ram. Thanks for any tips on this. TD

tdark · Accepted Answer

Yes I had already tried that but I knew it would not work because nobody had messed with the setting. . I had about five used motherboards so I just stuck one in and now it works fine. Thanks anyway. Tom

rdunnill · Answer

Have you tried resetting the BIOS to factory defaults?

DELL-Roshan L · Answer

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