Hello everyone. First of all I want to say how very pleased I am with this motherboard. I have never been let down by Asrock and I can tell this board is quality. BTW are the transistors gold plated? they appear so. Anyway on to way I am posting.
I bought an antec big boy 200, because according to reviews it moves a lot of air and is very quiet. Antec usually please me with cooling power yet still being very quiet. However for some reason the third party company on amazon who sent me the fan, neglected to supply the necessary screws/bolts and whatever other connector I need that goes from the fan to the motherboard.
I have examined the board and have found what I believe are the chasis1 chasis2, 3 and 4 fans. I presume that I must connect to chasis 1? I have a connector which fits into the chasis one slot just fine, the other end of that cable is a 4 pin MALE plug. I believe it is called a "molex connector" it looks like the white part of this plug
4 pin molex - Google Search
(but not the blag part- that end is the part that goes into the chasis 1 connector)
Anyway after connecting my big boy 200 to this male plug it does not spin. I have verified that the fan does in fact work, by instead connecting it to the socket next to the cpu which is labelled "SLI xfire pwr1" and it does indeed spin without problems. I don't want to connect it here thoug, because of the length of the cable it will spoil the airflow of the case. (my entire computer is built to maximise airflow and reduce noise) also I suspect that by connecting here I won't be able to manage the speed of the fan from the motherboard bios.
Please tell me what I need to connect this fan to the motherboard ! If you can also identify the type of screws to connect to my coolermaster haf xm case would be a very nice bonus, but not completely necessary as I can find that out myself.
I have attempted to find this information from antec, but I simple cannot get any support, they refer me back to the supplier, who is uncommunicative and I suspect they don't do business anymore. This is very poor support on the part of Antec, I hope Asrock can help me .
I bought an antec big boy 200, because according to reviews it moves a lot of air and is very quiet. Antec usually please me with cooling power yet still being very quiet. However for some reason the third party company on amazon who sent me the fan, neglected to supply the necessary screws/bolts and whatever other connector I need that goes from the fan to the motherboard.
I have examined the board and have found what I believe are the chasis1 chasis2, 3 and 4 fans. I presume that I must connect to chasis 1? I have a connector which fits into the chasis one slot just fine, the other end of that cable is a 4 pin MALE plug. I believe it is called a "molex connector" it looks like the white part of this plug
4 pin molex - Google Search
(but not the blag part- that end is the part that goes into the chasis 1 connector)
Anyway after connecting my big boy 200 to this male plug it does not spin. I have verified that the fan does in fact work, by instead connecting it to the socket next to the cpu which is labelled "SLI xfire pwr1" and it does indeed spin without problems. I don't want to connect it here thoug, because of the length of the cable it will spoil the airflow of the case. (my entire computer is built to maximise airflow and reduce noise) also I suspect that by connecting here I won't be able to manage the speed of the fan from the motherboard bios.
Please tell me what I need to connect this fan to the motherboard ! If you can also identify the type of screws to connect to my coolermaster haf xm case would be a very nice bonus, but not completely necessary as I can find that out myself.
I have attempted to find this information from antec, but I simple cannot get any support, they refer me back to the supplier, who is uncommunicative and I suspect they don't do business anymore. This is very poor support on the part of Antec, I hope Asrock can help me .
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