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| 605766 | 2007-10-27 05:04:00 | Hi guys, I'm just wondering if anyone can help. I have just finished building my first system and everything is running sweetly but I have a little niggle. I am running an Asus Striker Extreme and have my two main chassis fans connected to fan pins on the motherboard. The board is equipped with Asus Q Fan which are meant to control the fans. I have turned the temps right down on these to get them going but to no avail. I have also installed the thermo sensors but am not sure that I have done this correctly. Fans on my psu and and one 80mm side panel fan are running from the psu so they're fine. Temp is not a problem at present but I still would like to see these going at some stage. Can anybody shed a little light on my problem????? Cheers Trev:confused: |
clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 605767 | 2007-10-27 05:12:00 | Did you enable it in the BIOS as stated here ? (www.asus.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 605768 | 2007-10-27 05:17:00 | Hi Speedy, As far as I know...surely I'm not that dumb!!?? I'll go check just in case but I'm sure it's enabled. |
clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 605769 | 2007-10-27 05:27:00 | My bios menu is a little different to the one you've posted speedy and the Q Fan is enabled by default. So I'm still in the dark somewhat. Thanks for your help though...maybe I'll simply run them from the molex connectors instead of plugging them into the mobo. | clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 605770 | 2007-10-27 05:37:00 | Up to you, whether you plug them into the mobo or a molex connector. Only diff is, you wont get the temps in the BIOS, and no programs if you want to check the temp/speed etc will pick the fans up. But either way, they'll still spin. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 605771 | 2007-10-27 21:59:00 | Turn off Q-fan and they'll run at full speed all the time, maybe your pc just has to get hotter before they turn on. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 605772 | 2007-10-27 22:23:00 | Are the case fans the 4 wire variant? The traditional 3 wire version cant vary their speed ;) | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 605773 | 2007-10-27 22:40:00 | Are the case fans the 4 wire variant? The traditional 3 wire version cant vary their speed ;) All my fans connected to my fan controller are three wire and they vary in speed I am sure... If you use the 4 wire mlex you will be at top speed all the time... Sounds like I am wrong or right? Confused... Not to worry Sunday is ROAST DAY! :rolleyes: |
zcc (50) | ||
| 605774 | 2007-10-27 22:45:00 | All my fans connected to my fan controller are three wire and they vary in speed I am sure... If you use the 4 wire mlex you will be at top speed all the time... Sounds like I am wrong or right? Confused... Not to worry Sunday is ROAST DAY! :rolleyes: Last time i check the whole idea was that a fan controller change the speed of fans??? Thus it would make sense that the speed of the fans varies ;) I'm not talking about 4 wire molex connectors, theres a new 4 pin fan header thats been around for a few years or so now. The fourth wire allows the motherboard to control the speed of the fan. The fourth wire allows software to vary the resistance and thus reduce or increase the speed of the fan. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 605775 | 2007-10-28 01:46:00 | Hi guys, thanks for your input. I was wondering if maybe my problem was my bios. I've installed the board with the bios it came with but maybe I need to update it. I've had the temps turned right down on the thermo sensors but but they still didn't activate. Maybe I'm putting my thermo sensors in the wrong places...is there anywhere specific. I have on tucked in near the hard drive and the other near the graphics card. In answer to your question Pete...they are only three pin headers. Thanks again for your help |
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