[BlueBomber]

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Originally Posted by johnnyis42

you could try to take the old heat sink fan (3 pin motherboard connector type) and just plug it into the motherboard so the cpu fan sensor gets some kind of reading, and then see if you get anything.

yes, not having the pc speaker hooked up might be leaving you without a vital piece of information if the motherboard is reporting beep codes, which would indicate among other things, no cpu, no memory, no video, etc.

My new heatsink also has the 3-pin connector, and it seems to get power and run just fine. This 3-pin connector is also the only thing that I plug into the motherboard...is there anything else that I might be missing? Do heatsinks require some other external power from the power supply, or is this 3-pin connector the only thing that should be plugged in?

Also, I just went and picked up a PC speaker, and plugged her into my 20-pin system panel. When I switch on the computer, it makes 1 long beep (about 5 seconds), and then is silent for about 5 seconds, and then repeats. What’s weird is that I wasn't sure which way the speaker was supposed to be plugged in, so I put it in both right side up and upside down, while achieving the same results. When I put the speaker in upside down, I shouldn’t hear any noise from the speaker, right?