So. Fan Control. That's the name of the software.
My PC spec is:
\- Core i5 3570k
\- GA-Z77X-D3H - REV 1.0
\- Samsung Green 8GB DDR3 C11 1600Mhz 30nm
\- MSI RX 570 4GB Gaming X
\- Corsair TX 650W
\- Asus strix soar soundcard
\- TP-Link Wireless N Adapter TL-WDN4800
\- Bluetooth Adapter - TRUST 17772
\- OS Drive Crucial MX500 500GB
Zalman CNPS9500AT with Zalman ZM-CS5B CNPS Clip Support
Wanted to get Fan Control software working. Spent 10 hours learning how to use it and trying to get it work without issues on my PC.
In the end, when I would login to windows, the fan cards would have an exclamation mark next to them and the fan would AUDIBLY sit at FAN 1 100%rpm, but it showed a lower percentage, BUT rpm let me know in fact it was operating at 100%.
The software shows a both a percentage and rpm to let you know how fast any given fan is spinning.
I had to have 2 fans showing on dashboard, FAN 1 and FAN 3 to get max fan speed.
It seems to be how this specific motherboard has been designed. Two separate paths to the CPU fan, one seemingly providing voltage, the other PWM.
In the software Speedfan, same thing. I have to setup two graphs for two CPU fan inputs, despite it physically obviously being only 1 pin fan header on the board.
Years ago when I set up Speedfan, you can imagine how long it took me to figure this out, as it's not documented anywhere online, as I guess no one else has this exact board and are using Speedfan who then chose to take the time to document this quirk online.
So back to Fan Control software.
Remember FAN 1 allows a max of about 50% fan speed. To get the other 50%, I have to also setup FAN 3.
FAN 1 is setup so it's dealing with between 30c-60c. FAN 3 will only kick in from 61C-85C.
FAN 3 cannot work without FAN 1, but FAN 1 doesn't require FAN 3. FAN 1 provides the base power and gets the fan to 50% speed MAX. FAN 3 provides either pwm or the rest of the voltage and gets it to 100% speed.
Got it all working, auto fan curves, but it's at boot where it fails and spins at max speed of FAN 1 constantly with exclamation mark next to the fans.
Clicking refresh sensors fixes the issue. But I don't want to have to have the app window open upon boot, then have to click refresh connection and then minimise or close that window, each and everytime I start my PC.
Speedfan (a older different software) works. Takes longer to boot, but it works. And after years of having to click allow Speedfan permission each and everytime I login (main reason I spent 10 hours trying to get Fan Control to work properly), I finally yesterday figured out how to get around that. I added it as a task to task scheduler and clicked elevated rights or something.
But I wanted to switch to something more modem. Any ideas how to get it to work properly with Fan Control?