Case problems

gwhea38411 · March 23rd, 2006

Hope this is the right thread, here it goes. As you can see, I got the Armour case. It came w/2-120mm chassis fans (front and rear) and 2-90mm chassis fans (rear and top). All four fans are powered directly from the PSU. The 120mm fans have mobo control leads. One of the 90mm fans is not working. Is there any way to test this fan see if its bad? I;ve already tried other PSU leads.

On another note, the power and IDE LED's on the front panel do not work and are hooked to the correct mobo slots. Any suggestions? My IDE is a SATA drive, could that be the problem?

Tyreal · March 23rd, 2006

For your fan problem... Do the 3-pin connectors on the fans have 3 wires or just one yellow one? If its just one, make sure its not connected. If you have any other power supply around then you can test it on it.

gwhea38411 · March 23rd, 2006

The 90mm fans have 1 black and 1 red wire. I've tried it in other PSU leads. Still dont work.

**Capper** · March 23rd, 2006

Sounds like you have a problematic case

gwhea38411 · March 23rd, 2006

thats what I thought too.

Tyreal · March 23rd, 2006

Yea. Sucks. You said only one 92mm is acting up. Any others? Try sending TT an email saying you got defective fans. You could probably replace them with quieter fans if worse comes to worse.

**gvblake22** · March 24th, 2006

If the fans don't work on the same power supply leads as the other fans do work on, then it sounds like you got some fans that were DOA (which really sucks). You spend that kindof money for that case and I would be pissed to get dead fans! Contact Tt and see what they can do.

As for the power and HDD activity LED's, just double check in the manual and make sure they are connected to the correct pins. They make those things so close together that it is hard sometimes to tell if they are on the right pins or not. If they are on the right pins, then make sure that you have the polarity right. You might have the positive on the negative and vice-versa...

Archilochus · March 25th, 2006

Seems like the letters on the plugs face down when plugged onto the headers I.M.Exp... The white wire is the common or ground.

gwhea38411 · March 25th, 2006

Consider yourself lucky Blake, If you were in arms reach, I probably would have kissed ya! I consider myself lucky too, wasn't looking forward to that-LOL! :shock: The plug on on the leads were missed wired (turned arround) when assembled. So now my only problem is that faulty fan. Waiting to see what Newegg or Tt will offer.

**gvblake22** · March 25th, 2006

HAHAHA, glad you got it figured out gwhea. And I think I am glad I wasn't within arms reach! :shock:

March 23rd, 2006	#1
gwhea38411 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Louisiana Posts: 97	Case problems Hope this is the right thread, here it goes. As you can see, I got the Armour case. It came w/2-120mm chassis fans (front and rear) and 2-90mm chassis fans (rear and top). All four fans are powered directly from the PSU. The 120mm fans have mobo control leads. One of the 90mm fans is not working. Is there any way to test this fan see if its bad? I;ve already tried other PSU leads. On another note, the power and IDE LED's on the front panel do not work and are hooked to the correct mobo slots. Any suggestions? My IDE is a SATA drive, could that be the problem? MOBO: Asus A8N32-SLI CPU: Opteron 165 HDD: WD 320GB/16MB/SATA RAM: 2GB OCZ Gold XTC PC4000 ROM: NEC 3550a DL DVD/CD Burner Video: Geforce 7900GT Extreme Case: Thermaltake Armor/aluminum PSU: Thermaltake 600w purepower OS: Windows XP Professional

March 23rd, 2006	#2
Tyreal Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,557	For your fan problem... Do the 3-pin connectors on the fans have 3 wires or just one yellow one? If its just one, make sure its not connected. If you have any other power supply around then you can test it on it. I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220

March 23rd, 2006	#3
gwhea38411 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Louisiana Posts: 97	The 90mm fans have 1 black and 1 red wire. I've tried it in other PSU leads. Still dont work. MOBO: Asus A8N32-SLI CPU: Opteron 165 HDD: WD 320GB/16MB/SATA RAM: 2GB OCZ Gold XTC PC4000 ROM: NEC 3550a DL DVD/CD Burner Video: Geforce 7900GT Extreme Case: Thermaltake Armor/aluminum PSU: Thermaltake 600w purepower OS: Windows XP Professional

March 23rd, 2006	#4
Capper I'm Evil Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,616 Blog Entries: 6	Sounds like you have a problematic case INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

March 23rd, 2006	#5
gwhea38411 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Louisiana Posts: 97	thats what I thought too. MOBO: Asus A8N32-SLI CPU: Opteron 165 HDD: WD 320GB/16MB/SATA RAM: 2GB OCZ Gold XTC PC4000 ROM: NEC 3550a DL DVD/CD Burner Video: Geforce 7900GT Extreme Case: Thermaltake Armor/aluminum PSU: Thermaltake 600w purepower OS: Windows XP Professional

March 24th, 2006	#7
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,351 Blog Entries: 1	If the fans don't work on the same power supply leads as the other fans do work on, then it sounds like you got some fans that were DOA (which really sucks). You spend that kindof money for that case and I would be pissed to get dead fans! Contact Tt and see what they can do. As for the power and HDD activity LED's, just double check in the manual and make sure they are connected to the correct pins. They make those things so close together that it is hard sometimes to tell if they are on the right pins or not. If they are on the right pins, then make sure that you have the polarity right. You might have the positive on the negative and vice-versa...

March 25th, 2006	#8
Archilochus Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 82	Seems like the letters on the plugs face down when plugged onto the headers I.M.Exp... The white wire is the common or ground. MOBYDICK Intel-2.4c-HT @ 2.9 SP-94 w/ Delta 92mm HHE w/25mm spacer FIC-865PE-Max* OCZ Modstream 520 PSU* OCZ 2x512 EL Gold PC 4000 @ 1:1 2.5/4/4/7 BFG Geforce 7800GS-OC 80g.Maxtor.PATA.""SATA*Xaser III. v1000D modded

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