System fan failure

[lincsman]

My computer only has a case fan, which blows through and air duct onto the CPU heatsink, and when I turn it on all it says is "system fan failure, will turn off in 5 seconds," and then proceeds to shut off after 5 seconds. I can't enter BIOS or anythign and the fan works fine, I even tried a new fan and that ran just fine, too, but my comuter keeps doing the same thing. Any suggestions are really appreciated.

 

[PC eye]

It sounds like the bios information is being lost due to a weak battery or a need to reflash the bios with an update. Hopefully the bios EProm isn't failing on you. Generally when the bios fails to detect a working hardware that would be the place to start looking for problems.

The system specifications for the HP model in your sig can be seen at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c00002899#N412

The bios update and others like updated drivers for the board can be downloaded directly from http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=307588&lang=en