Righteo, cool, I'll give that a go. the fan does kinda turn on to begin with, it jerks and does like 1 rev lol. And then just dies in the ***. It kinda looks like there has been a short surge of power to it and then it dies.
Sorry forgot to mention, the cpu is only like 6 months old, should the hsf be dying already? I had an AMD 2500xp before and i had the hsf it came with for like 3yrs until i sold it