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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Maybe the board thought the CPU fan was cooked and it was preventing a boot for safety? I’ve never seen anything like that safety speaking, but I could believe it exists.

    I’ve owned and worked on computers that have that as a safety feature. If the CPU fan wasn’t connected or wasn’t working, they wouldn’t boot. They would usually have a beep code to let you know, but that’s assuming that there’s a motherboard speaker and it’s working.

    A shorted fan would probably trigger it, as they would usually use the third cable on the fan connector to measure the rpm and check that the fan was spinning 👍