EMERGENCY!

[jerry]

Steven Vollom wrote:
>
> When I turned the computer on, the case fans came on.  There was a 
> single beep.  Nonetheless the fan on the heat sink did not come on, and 
> it is fixed to the power post of the motherboard that was made for it.
>
>
>   
I also recently built a new computer. I did not use the Asus mb or AMD 
cpu etc.
When I did my first powerup I also nearly had a heart attack because the 
lights came on and the case fans spun up and the cpu fan did not start 
immediately as I expected. Then after about 3 seconds it did start up 
and then shut down again. I cold not turn it off fast enough fearing the 
same outcome as you expressed.

I did recheck all my connections and I did recall hearing 1 beep. I 
expect 1 beep to be the normal startup signal. So after I was convinced 
that everything was properly connected I held my breath, crossed my 
fingers, said a very sincere prayer, and powered up again. It started up 
in the exact same way and I resisted the fear and let the computer 
startup. In another 3 seconds the cpu fan started up a second time and 
continued to run. It ran fine.

It seems my rig after I have powered off the mb will start, stop and 
restart the cpu fan. It was all new to me and there was nothing in the 
manual to warn me about this.

Your mileage may vary and I don't want to encourage you to do anything 
that may damage your computer.
You could try to google for the problem (e,g, cpu 1 beep no cpu fan) or 
post to a news group that answers questions about building pcs like     
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.

Good luck

Jerry