Arctic Cooler Freezer & Pro Rev 2 fan died

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I've used Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU coolers in all my systems, and have done since the Athlon 64 days. Quiet, reduce system temps a lot and keep them low, and until now reliable.

Switched on my main i7 system yesterday and the cmos threw up a CPU fan error. I looked inside the case and the fan wasn't spinning. I hit F1 to go into the BIOS, everything looked OK settings wise so I quit and rebooted. The fan was now spinning again. Strange.

Turned the system on again later last night and same error, and fan not spinning, however it wouldn't spin up after a reboot either. Removed the fan and plugged it into a test PSU and nothing. Dead. I checked the wiring with a multimeter and it is receiving the correct voltage right up to the circuit board on the fan itself but isn't spinning. Maybe a component has died on there? :unsure: Not had a fan just die like that.. normally it's bearings squeaking and seizing up.

Has anyone else got any ideas what caused it? Or has anyone else had a fan suddenly die like this? I read a few others have had the fans on these suddenly die like this too.

Anyway, I went out and bought another Freezer 7 Pro today and put the new fan onto the existing heatsink (no point dissembling the whole thing), so everything is back to normal.

So now I have a completely spare new Freezer 7 Pro, minus fan, not doing much. I wonder if any other fans fit onto them..
 
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I might still see if I can claim a replacement fan from the warranty as I just noticed they carry a 6 year warranty. Would just need to find the receipt.. which could be hard :lol:

I did consider attaching a fan via cable ties, or fan screws directly into the heatsink fins, but think they would end up being louder. I wonder if any might fit the rubber mounting harness from the original fan. Will have a measure up later and see what the diameter is.
 
i still use the original v1 on 2 systems

been looking online and some say the fan needs clicking back in place
 
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I also have a couple of the original v1's running fine too, plus a couple of other systems using the v2.

I read about clicking the fan back into place, but that didn't do anything.
 
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