Fans won't spin up to check airflow direction

[spencerlievens]

I have purchased the Coolermaster V6GT and fitted it to an i7 930 on the Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R Motherboard in a Coolermaster HAF912 with Corsair TX650W PSU. I had to remove the fans on the CPU Cooler to fit it and I then tried a power on to check the fans i took off the V6GT cooler were refitted correctly on a push/pull configuration. The problem is that when I power up the fans dont spin up on the cpu cooler but the case fans do so I can't check, could this be caused by having no Memory and no Video Card installed?

 

[Wildcard]

Hi,

I do not believe that no memory or video card installed would cause the cpu fan not to spin. Try reseating the cpu fan power connector on the motherboard and try it again. If that doesnt work, see if you can plug it into where one of the working case fans is plugged in to see if it will work at all. If it doesnt start spinning using the known good connection, I would think the fan is bad.

 

[spencerlievens]

I believe the fan to be working because when you turn it on it makes about 10-15 revolutions then stops. So I believe the motherboard (GA-X58-UD3R) starts the fan then realises that there is no ram installed and then doesnt put power to the chip and in turn doesn't run the fan as there is no need. I'm gonna try and get a stick of ram over the next few days and try it and see what happens :) Any other ideas let me know.