Foxconn Cinema Delux Help

[weasel440]

Hello all, I'm new here and would like to start out by saying... lots of good info here.

I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I got a Foxconn Cinema Delux Motherboard and after installing all components my fans are running at full speed. I've contacted Foxconn, but there customer help is a joke.

So far i've used there foxone program (no luck), AMD Overdrive (no luck), speed fan (no luck). Also tried different settings in the BIOS (no luck).

The (4) fans are running at full speed. CPU, Case, 2nd Case, & Northbridge Cooling Fan. ALSO just the CPU & Case fan are showing RPMs. The CPU fan is a 3 wire, but i should still be able to manually control?

Any help / tips would be greatly appreciatted.

 

[Automata]

It depends on the board. If it doesn't have the components to control the voltage given to the fan, you won't be able to change it. Simply put, you can't control a toy car without a remote.

That being said, can you link to your exact board?

 

[trents]

Does the bios have "Smart fan" options? If so the motherboard has the capability to control fan speeds but you need the right kind of fans to work with that. Usually, if the fan has four wires it can be controlled by the Smart fan options in bios or those other utilities you mentioned. Most all 3 wire fans and all 2 wire fans do not have this capability. For 2 and 3 wire fans you would need a separate rheostat to control speed.

 

[weasel440]

here is a link to the board... http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000471
I figure I better and some other info as well... i'm using windows 7 home premium 64 bit. NO overclocking (yet), but coming.

In the bios it does not have "SMART FAN" it has cool & quiet, BUT in the BIOS hardware monitoring section you can control the "cpu & system fan". Options are (auto) (full on) or (pwm - pmw manual) not sure if it was called pwm or pmw but it is manual and fans do not act to any changes made through BIOS.

Foxconn also has a program called FOXONE that also moitors and allows you to make changes to fans and overclocking. In this utility it has "SMART FAN" options. According to the manual - it says to disable the smart fan option if using a 3 wire fan. A little off topic... they only added fan rpms for 3 of the 4 fan headers? . This was another question I had, it is only showing rpms for cpu & system fan not the other 2. This is the same for all utilitys I tried.

Maybe someone could also clarify something else... my power supply i'm using has the 24 pin main plug, but only has a 4 pin secondary plug not 8 like they want you to use. And yes they do have it setup to use the 4 pin plug. Could this have anything to do with the fans?

all help is much appreciated... and maybe a little patience... Charles

 

[trents]

Whether you use the 8 pin or 4 pin axillary 12v power plug will have no effect on your fan speed control. The third wire on 3 wire fans is the "tach" wire and that is why you can monitor RPMs with a three wire fan. Four wire fans have not only a tach wire but a power control wire and that is why only a 4 wire fan will afford speed control. PWM (pulse width modulation) is typically used for fan speed control by motherboards. It works on the principle of breaking the current to the fan into a series of quick bursts. The more rapid the bursts the faster the fan turns. It works pretty effectively but can have the downside of an irritating background noise.

Cool N Quiet has nothing to do with fan speed control. It is a power down technology for the CPU when it is at idle. Overclockers generally disable it as it can create instability when overclocking.

 

[weasel440]

Anybody else have any suggestions?

Why I asked about the 8 pin atx power plug is because I got some (-) readings in amd overdrive using my current 4 pin plug.

And could someone please explain these abreviations... TMPIN, VIN, I think VIN is voltage in?


Sample CPU Core0 CPU Core1 TMPIN0 TMPIN1 TMPIN2 TMPIN3 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 FAN4
0 28.00 28.00 28.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5113 0 0 0
1 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
2 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
3 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
4 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5113 0 0 0
5 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
6 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
7 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
8 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5113 0 0 0
9 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 39.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
10 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
11 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5113 0 0 0
12 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5075 0 0 0
13 27.00 27.00 27.00 33.00 40.00 -294.68 5113 0 0 0

-------------Summary:--------------

Start time: 2011_02_22 21:52:56
End time: 2011_02_22 21:53:10
Sample time interval(second):1
------------TMP-------------
Min Max Average
CPU Core0 27.00 28.00 27.07
CPU Core1 27.00 28.00 27.07
TMPIN0 27.00 28.00 27.07
TMPIN1 33.00 33.00 33.00
TMPIN2 39.00 40.00 39.57
TMPIN3 -294.68 -294.68 -294.68
------------FAN-------------
Min Max Average
FAN1 5075 5113 5089
FAN2


Sample VIN0 VIN1 VIN2 VIN3 VIN4 VIN5 VIN6 VIN7 VIN8 VIN9 VIN10 VIN11
0 1.17 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
3 1.07 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 1.07 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.90 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 1.07 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6 1.07 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
7 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
8 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
9 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
10 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
12 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
13 0.99 1.92 3.34 4.91 11.84 -12.42 -5.32 2.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

-------------Summary:--------------

Start time: 2011_02_22 21:52:56
End time: 2011_02_22 21:53:10
Sample time interval(second):1
------------VIN-------------
Min Max Average
VIN0 0.99 1.17 1.027
VIN1 1.92 1.92 1.920
VIN2 3.34 3.34 3.344
VIN3 4.91 4.91 4.907
VIN4 11.84 11.90 11.845
VIN5 -12.42 -12.42 -12.420
VIN6 -5.32 -5.32 -5.320
VIN7 2.55 2.55 2.550
VIN8 0.00 0.00 0.000
VIN9 0.00 0.00 0.000
VIN10 0.00 0.00 0.000
VIN11 0.00 0.00 0.000

 

[trents]

TMPIN0 TMPIN1 TMPIN2 TMPIN3 are generic references to temperatures that the software would display if it found the corresponding temperature sensors on the motherboard. You see the same nomenclature in HWMonitor if you have ever used that program.

In the same way the VINs are, as you have guessed, voltage references. Sorry I can't be more specific than that but some of them you can figure out by looking at the numbers in the columns below them. Some of the appear to be references to the PSU rails, like the 12v, 5v, and 3v rails. The TMPIN0, etc. and the VINx seem to be column headers but they are out of alignment.

 

[weasel440]

i don't know what happen to the alignment? it looked ok till I posted? I tried to edit, but it looked ok? what would be a good method to post readings. I just copied and pasted.

What about the (-) voltage on VIN5 (-12.42) & VIN6 (-5.32)

 

[QuietIce]

A tab entry is treated as a space in the forum display. There are ways to post aligned columns and none of them are easy. Posting a screen shot is simpler.