Aw9d-max headaches
So i just built a new rig using the AW9D-max, which SEEMED like a great board until I started using it. Maybe a setting is just off.
I use an xp-120 heatsink with a 90CFM Panaflow 120mm Fan. Now this fan doesn't has an RPM wire. Just power and ground. So I plug it into the CPU fan header (which is made for intel's 4 pin fans) and it works!
But it runs at full speed, and anyone who has heard a 90cfm fan at full speed, knows that it shouldn't always be running at that speed.
Luckily, ABIT boards have FanEq, rigth? Well it doesn't do anything. Now it took 5 re-reads of the manual on FanEQ, and I still don't understnad how the settings work, but I have tried every bracket of temperatures out there, and the fan stays at full speed.
So I looked on the internet and apparently FanEQ for the CPU fan only works on 4 pin fans so it can use the "control" wire". Sucks for me I guess. So I plug the CPU fan inthe the AUX3FAN header, which can be controller via voltage (yah!). The computer turns on then off. Probably due to no CPU fan plugged in, but wait, my cpu fan doesnt have an rpm wire anyway, so how would it know?
So I plug another fan I have in my case that ONLY has a rpm wire (gets power elsewhere) into the CPU fan header. Computer turns on and stops at error 2A, which isn't in the manual as ANY recognized error code.
So I clear the CMOS and it boots. Go into the bios and tell it to enable FanEQ on the AUX3FAN.
Temp high: 50C
Temp low: 25C
Volt high: 10v
Volt low: 6v
I don't even know if these are the right settings, but it should matter cause its max should still be 10v, yet the fan whizzes away at full speed.
The ONLY other idea I can think of is that I need software installed in windows. But if Abit requires you to install windows software to actually enable a bios feature, that's ridiculous.
EDIT: Thought I would add that my idle temp is 27C.
So i just built a new rig using the AW9D-max, which SEEMED like a great board until I started using it. Maybe a setting is just off.
I use an xp-120 heatsink with a 90CFM Panaflow 120mm Fan. Now this fan doesn't has an RPM wire. Just power and ground. So I plug it into the CPU fan header (which is made for intel's 4 pin fans) and it works!
But it runs at full speed, and anyone who has heard a 90cfm fan at full speed, knows that it shouldn't always be running at that speed.
Luckily, ABIT boards have FanEq, rigth? Well it doesn't do anything. Now it took 5 re-reads of the manual on FanEQ, and I still don't understnad how the settings work, but I have tried every bracket of temperatures out there, and the fan stays at full speed.
So I looked on the internet and apparently FanEQ for the CPU fan only works on 4 pin fans so it can use the "control" wire". Sucks for me I guess. So I plug the CPU fan inthe the AUX3FAN header, which can be controller via voltage (yah!). The computer turns on then off. Probably due to no CPU fan plugged in, but wait, my cpu fan doesnt have an rpm wire anyway, so how would it know?
So I plug another fan I have in my case that ONLY has a rpm wire (gets power elsewhere) into the CPU fan header. Computer turns on and stops at error 2A, which isn't in the manual as ANY recognized error code.
So I clear the CMOS and it boots. Go into the bios and tell it to enable FanEQ on the AUX3FAN.
Temp high: 50C
Temp low: 25C
Volt high: 10v
Volt low: 6v
I don't even know if these are the right settings, but it should matter cause its max should still be 10v, yet the fan whizzes away at full speed.
The ONLY other idea I can think of is that I need software installed in windows. But if Abit requires you to install windows software to actually enable a bios feature, that's ridiculous.
EDIT: Thought I would add that my idle temp is 27C.
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