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Question posted by bsakasai on November 5th, 2012

Noisy Fan.

After failed MB was replaced the fan is always on high. Is there a way to adjust the fan?

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Answer #1: Posted by Anonymous-87925 on December 8th, 2012 9:58 AM

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boot into BIOS (Press Delete) after computer beeps while turning on.

and press F9 to load default values.

If your computer fails to boot after loading default values, go back to BIOS and look for a SATA setting, it might be set to RAID or AHCI, set it to the opposite it was.

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