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Hello everyone, I'm creating this topic hoping someone managed to solve my issue. I was having countless issues with FanXpert/Ai Suite (specifically my fan curves would stop working during long idle periods and the temperatures would skyrocket for whatever reason, forcing the computer to shutdown sometimes). Long story short I finally installed FanControl and got a new round of issues to solve in hope to reach a definitive configuration. Some info on my setup: Motherboard: ASUS Zenith Extreme Alpha II Sensor chipset: Nuvoton NCT6798D Noctua PWM Fans connected on CHA Fan 1 and CHA Fan 2 headers I removed VRMs Fan and heatsink (there is a waterblock) AsusWMI Plugin installed but doesn't initialize (no sensors found) Current Issues: FanControl is intermittently fighting to gain control over both CHA Fan 1 and 2. After further investigation I have random RPM ramp ups on all headers (even unplugged ones), images attached: neither the fan curves nor BIOS settings justify this behavior, it doesn't seem triggered by temperatures either. The peaks you see in the "Control [%]" sections should not be there, the temps should be higher that 80° to justify a peak and that is not the case as shown in the graph. After further investigation I found this, this and this which seem to indicate a bug in the management of the fans themselves. Not sure how to solve it. Is there anyway to check which program is trying to take control on the fans at any given time? Just to make sure it is not software related but BIOS related. What I tried so far: I disabled Ai Suite from starting on logon because I thought it was conflicting with FanControl. Probably not the case as I'm facing the same issues with or without it. Specifically I killed startup applications and the following services: ARMOURY CRATE Service, ASUS AURA SYNC lighting service, ASUS Com Service, ASUS HM Corn Service, ASUS System Control Service, AsusFanControlService, AsusROGLSLService Download, ROGLSLoader. I had to use CHA Fan 1 and CHA Fan 2 headers because CPU headers were too restrictive in their setting (no Stop Fan options, can't change reference sensor, etc.). Following some advice given by the FanControl community I setup CHA Fan 2 in DC mode (it is a PWM fan) that allows me to enable Stop Fan (0%) but still control it via PWM. I couldn't do the same with CHA Fan 1, I had to set it to PWM. I have no idea why. Both PWM and DC modes need to set a curve so I did so, I suspect these are the settings FanControl is fighting with but I don't believe it's possible to turn off "smart" controls and retain "turn off fans" function. This is somewhat of a crosspost. I hope someone here can help me solve the issue or at least understand what is going on.

I am using a Thinkpad x301. Is there any software that is easy to setup and, or has a GUI? I saw thinkfan but as a begginer in ubuntu I just cant understand how to set it up. I am doing this beacuse for my use case my laptop isnt running hot but the fan is still on 500rpm and makes weird noises and its driving me nuts.

I need help in fan control for my linux OS, I need a GUI for controlling my fans, the motherboard I am using is MSI Tomahawk X570 Please help

So i'm not very tech literate and have been hunting around for software that allows me to control my fan's speed on the surface laptop 3. Only reason for this is because I live in a hotter part of the world and playing esports titles on this machine heats up most of the chassis. I'd like to at least slow that down or buffer it by preemptively blasting my fans while plugged in, before I open up one of these games so i'm not having my laptop get very toasty before the fans really kick in. Does anyone know any way of doing this?

This thread is for people who want to write about ways to use the FanControl software developed by Rem0o, which is described in the LTT thread linked below. In message #2 I will post a .bat script that demonstrates one way to use the new .sensor feature provided by FanControl. If you have ideas about how to use FanControl that you think are worth sharing, you may post them here.

Hello, if you have a asrock motherboard and 5min to spare, i will be grateful. Im thinking about switching from Gigabyte to asrock due to i will get 5 fanheaders instead of 2, and more rgb headers too, also superiour vrm. (im thinking of asrock b450m pro) But i use a lot of gigabyte fan control and rgb programs, due to how good they are (compared to asus, they never crash etc), and i want to know how good they are. If you could download the ASROCK Fan control and the rgb program and screenshot them to me, that would be very nice. The only images i found online look really outdated, and i really hope that the programs still dont look like that. Important to me: Able to switch fan speed on the fly no restart required. Able to create custom curves, or choose rpm fixed modes. Able to select temperature sensors. The current gigabyte fan control program and the rgb one (look how good they look):

Hi there, just a quick question: Do most of the external fan controllers work immideatly when turning on the pc and do they keep the settings? I have a completely watercooled setup and every time I turn on my PC every fan and the pump turn to 100% until the software is loaded. The fans are not that problematic, but as my reservoir is mounted horizontally and is not filled up completely, at 100% the pump pushes air into the loop every time I boot. Thats so annoying. Thanks for any tips and any help. Robert

Just like the title says... I updated the bios for an NVME drive (which I ended up flaking out on the buyer on craigslist), so I updated the UEFI Bios. In the UEFI, I can adjust fans manually, and the fans change speed accordingly. HOWEVER, upon going into the OS, all the fans that were set to manual, simply do not run. I would love to set my fans to manual, and make my fan curves again as Noctuas do have a certain womp womp womp sound around 44-48% fan speed on my board... Any ideas?

Good evening tech community, first off, I am not a native speaker, please go easy on my spelling/grammar/etc mistakes. So I've had this issue, that I will come to later, for a while now. This morning I was close to killing myself over it, until this "5K Imac" video of linus released decent amounts of adrenaline to keep me from ending my life - and also brought me the idea to give the community a shot, that linus admire so much. 1. This is what happened To start things off, my system specs: CPU: i7-4770K GPU: MSI 780 Lightning PSU: Corsair RM 850W MB: MSI Z87 MPOWER RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Black (running XMP) Storage: 128GB Samsung 830 SSD, 1TB WD OS: Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1 The Computer has been running in this configuration for at least 6 Months (Stable, no crashes / errors / issues whatsoever). No changes in hardware have been made whatsoever. However it should be noted, that the harddrives (and os) are from a previous build which used an i5-3550 and a asus gtx 660. This previous build was stable for almost a year, until I upgraded everything but the harddrives. Although online folks told me differently, I could just plug in the harddrives and boot into windows with all my old folders / layout / data without any issues. Once again: NO CRASHES for at least 6 months straight. I used MSI Afterburner 4.0 with my MSI card. Also installed the MSI VGA Fan Tool which was made for the 780 Lightning, mainly to control that noisy ass fucking useless middlefan. Good knows why there is a fan in front of a metal plate with no cooling fins. Everything worked flawlessly. Then, about 4 Weeks ago, Afterburner suddenly told me it couldn't connect to the update server (See attachments). It also stopped recognizing my GPU and Gpu driver along with all temperature checkpoints on the card. It only showed Windows Ram usage. MSI VGA fan control didn't pop an error message, but also managed to stop working . Neither afterburner nor vga fan control can be adjusted anymore (see attachments). Fuck. Now the middlefan ramps up like a little b**** when playing games. What used to be my beloved near silent 1500€ killer gaming/edeting/working machine turned into a damn jet turbine. Could've had this much cheaper. Then I tried out EVGA Precision x16. Surprisingly, It worked. It showed some graphs regarding the gpu (I am not sure if power consumption and gpu clock are the only two that can be displayed, or if the others are hidden in some submenu). The fan control regulates one fan controller (The two big fans on the left and right), however not the second one (The yellow noisy middlefan). This smaller one still turns up like hell in video games. Precision x16 gave me an error this morning saying it couldn't connect to the internet. It could again after a reboot - afterburner still denies its services. 2. This is what I've done so far as mentioned, installed precision x to see if it might be due to gpu (but it is prooven that it isnt, right?) reinstalled EVERYTHING MSI related (tried to) reinstall everything nVidia related (after reboot, an old driver automatically installed itself .. dont know how that happened. maybe the pc took it from the downloads folder?) Just for the heck of it and in between steps rebooted the pc millions of times contacted MSI support twice: First guy told me to dump my pc and buy a new desktop from the MSI website (S***er) :angry: :angry: Second guy was a lot nicer. Told me to reinstall stuff, update stuff, clean regestry, and then to reinstall windows I did everything he said but to reinstall windows. I even used a regestry cleaning tool, although internet told me otherwise (I is said to be really unsafe). However, I dont feel like I did it properly. searched the web forever, however no one seems to have my certain issue updated everything (got my hands on afterburner 4.1 just today, same result : "can't connect to update server") "downdated" everything, used most older versions - still, all tell me they cant reach the update server# 3. Conclusion (about the question) I need to control the noisy middle fan. It is jus not necessary for it to run at 45% since booting (it always did that, and I always turned it down). I dont feel like its a Windows or GPU problem. Why would a problem randomly accur after over six months of problem free use without hardware changes? This doesnt make any sense to me. I think that something is preventing Afterburner from working - in the sense like afterburner needs (at least once maybe) a connection to the internet to varify (that I am not some spammer or anything?), but as it cannot establish a connection, the program locks itself and doesnt work? I mean why else would Precision x work? What could be hindering Afterburner? I really dont want to reinstall Windows. This would mean so much work for me as I really costumized my desktop and OS and file management etc. As I know the least about the regestry, and the nice MSI guy talked about it and cleaning it, I suspect the regestry to be the fault. (?) If you made it until the end, I want to thank you - I dont take it as granted that you take your time to help or even read about my issue. If you've any Solution, or idea, or know someone or know some place or website I could write to, anything - please let me know. Thank y'all so much in advance, yours truly, from the north of Germany, Richard

I was wondering... Is Asus no longer offering Fan Expert (software)? Will software like Fan Expert have to run in the background to work? Is any background process running? When I have set the setting to what I like, can I uninstall the software, and the setting will still work? Where is the settings saved/stored? Just a few interesting questions. I Hope that someone can answer