"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:13:51 +0000, Meat Plow ??o??:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:43:36 +0000, root ??o??:

New motherboards often have a small fan covering one of the bridge
chips. Likewise, expensive graphics cards have a fan on their
processor. These fans are cheaply made.

Is there protection for the MB/card to keep their chips from frying if
the tiny little fan fails?

No.

I'll revise that and say that if said fan is monitored then there can be
an audible alert set up if the fan drops below a certain RPM. The fan
would need to have three wires to be monitored. Also in BIOS there should
be a setting to alert if the mainboard goes over a set temperature limit.
The default limits are usually good enough to use.



Some motherboards have thermistors mounted under various chips and software
included on the setup disk with temp monitor and alarm.

I think my other PC has it, but its not obvious - I'd have to re-run the
setup disk to find out where it is.

Either that or I didn't bother with it last time I did a clean install.