I have suspected this, but am not completely sure, which is why I
contacted VIA to ask this question about the motherboard. I am still
waiting for an answer. No online reviews has said anything about this.

The system is quite warm, but not burning hot. I have set a temperature
max threshold in the bios so any overheating worries should be out of the
way anyhow, right?

Thanks for your input.

/P


> I suppose that the fan is temperature controlled. During booting it's
> switched on (as some kind of self test), after that (5-10 seconds) it
> goes to automatic mode. That means it only works when the system
> temperature gets too high. Probably m0n0wall produces such a small
> system load that it doesn't trigger the temperature sensor, hence the
> fan stands still.
>
>
> greetings,
>   Harry