Cooler LED problems

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#1 blood_b45
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I recently bought a thermaltake blue orb II and Z-machine gv1000 installed them both and the led from the fans seem to be flickering constantly. the things is it wasnt flickering before. When i installed the the hard drives,disk drive,and a couple of more fans(2 fans to be exact)then the flickering started. here are my specs.

intel p4 3.2ghz ht lga775 (thermaltake blue orb II)

evga 7800gtx(Z-MACHINE GV1000)

corsair1.5gb ram ddr2 533mhz

1tb wd caviar black hdd

460 watt zalman

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#2 GTR12
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Its ur PSU, cant supply enough power

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#3 blood_b45
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i disconnected the harddrives , the extra fans and the disk drives and the led lights from the fan still flicker.

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#4 GTR12
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i disconnected the harddrives , the extra fans and the disk drives and the led lights from the fan still flicker.

blood_b45

Is it badly wired?

or hitting a fan when its running?

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#5 blood_b45
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actually its quite neat, no wires getting in the way of the fans.the light flickesron the vga cooler and the processor cooler.I wouldnt think these things are power hogs.

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#6 GTR12
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Maybe the lights are just faulty

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#7 casket56
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Maybe the lights are just faulty

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If you have eliminated all of the other possible reasons then this is probably very correct
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#8 Aldouz
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Yeah I have the same problem... 3 of my fan case flicker and it piss me off, I replace the LED but it still flicker... so I guess the problem is not the LED but maybe the transistor or something like that...
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#9 blood_b45
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i removed the cpu cooler to see that the gpu cooler doesnt flicker anymore. maybe its to much suction of the boards power as both cpu/gpu coolers

recieve power from the fan connection instead of using a 4 pin MOLEX adapter.

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#10 markop2003
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i removed the cpu cooler to see that the gpu cooler doesnt flicker anymore. maybe its to much suction of the boards power as both cpu/gpu coolers

recieve power from the fan connection instead of using a 4 pin MOLEX adapter.

blood_b45
If that is the problem then you should be able to get a converter to solve that issue
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#11 Aldouz
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i removed the cpu cooler to see that the gpu cooler doesnt flicker anymore. maybe its to much suction of the boards power as both cpu/gpu coolers

recieve power from the fan connection instead of using a 4 pin MOLEX adapter.

blood_b45
Nope... My LED fan using 4-pin Molex, still flicker...
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#12 blood_b45
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i connected the gpu cooling fan to the auxillary fan connection(4pin ) and the cpu cooling fan to the cpu fan connection (4pin) even though the connections for the fans are made for 3 pin they still fit. that resolved the problem for me.

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#13 Marfoo
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i connected the gpu cooling fan to the auxillary fan connection(4pin ) and the cpu cooling fan to the cpu fan connection (4pin) even though the connections for the fans are made for 3 pin they still fit. that resolved the problem for me.

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I have a few Cooler Master blue LED fans that flicker on me. Not all 4 LEDs in the fan flicker, usually just one or two and they eventually just went out. I think it's just faulty manufacturing. Only my Cooler Master fans had this problem (they were cheap, 2 120mm for $10), but my more expensive AeroCool 140mm fans don't have this problem. All my fans are being powered from one molex connection feeding my fan controller.
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#14 casket56
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Usually the $30 Thermaltake Smart LED Fans don't flicker when other cheaper fans do :D