Gamdias M2-1204R RGB 2 out of 4 fans not lighting up

[ZeferiniX]

Bought a Gamdias M2-1204R 4-fan pack (https://www.gamdias.com/component/index.php/fans/aeolus-m2-1204r-2).

 

Problem:
Only 2 fans would light up instead of 4 but all fans are spinning though.

 

I tried isolating by just plugging the two fans that didn't light up and unplugging the other 2, this time it worked (they lighted up).

I tried moving all fans to different ports, no luck. Only 2 would light up.

If all 4 of them are plugged, the other 2 won't light up.

 

Am I missing something? What else can I try?

[LogicalDrm]

I assume that you are using some splitter or hub for lighting them? That's the issue. There's something wrong with that hub, and I'd recommend returning the pack.

[ZeferiniX]

5 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

I assume that you are using some splitter or hub for lighting them? That's the issue. There's something wrong with that hub, and I'd recommend returning the pack.

I've experimented a bit earlier and found a weird behavior.

 

Say we have fans A B C and D. This hub has 8 fans and 2 led ports. Say we use FANS 1-4 ports sequentially, I noticed that on certain orders, the lights won't light up

 

If I do the original order of A-B-C-D, C and D won't light up as questioned here. If I do D-C-B-A, B won't light up. I tried using Fan ports 1,2,7,8 and they all light up no matter how I mix them. I didn't look further into the other combinations for ports 1-4 but B-A-D-C worked for me currently. Really odd.

[Tashdeed]

On 9/8/2019 at 8:44 PM, ZeferiniX said:

I've experimented a bit earlier and found a weird behavior.

 

Say we have fans A B C and D. This hub has 8 fans and 2 led ports. Say we use FANS 1-4 ports sequentially, I noticed that on certain orders, the lights won't light up

 

If I do the original order of A-B-C-D, C and D won't light up as questioned here. If I do D-C-B-A, B won't light up. I tried using Fan ports 1,2,7,8 and they all light up no matter how I mix them. I didn't look further into the other combinations for ports 1-4 but B-A-D-C worked for me currently. Really odd.

Hi ZeferiniX!

I'm quite certain that some of the ports on your fan hub controller are faulty. The FAN3 and FAN4 seems the faulty ones, especially FAN3.

I think you should try RMA ing it. In future if you plan to use the same hub for a Gamdias M2-240r liquid cooling radiator, that might pose a problem.

 

But regardless, could you please share with me some of your build pics with me? I just wanna see how these fans look in real life.

My facebook Id is this:
https://www.facebook.com/tashdeedahmed

[ZeferiniX]

1 hour ago, Tashdeed said:

Hi ZeferiniX!

I'm quite certain that some of the ports on your fan hub controller are faulty. The FAN3 and FAN4 seems the faulty ones, especially FAN3.

I think you should try RMA ing it. In future if you plan to use the same hub for a Gamdias M2-240r liquid cooling radiator, that might pose a problem.

 

But regardless, could you please share with me some of your build pics with me? I just wanna see how these fans look in real life.

My facebook Id is this:
https://www.facebook.com/tashdeedahmed

Hello, it's a bit odd though since it works on certain orders. Either way, it's working well. I have no plans to water cool and have AC in the room so temps are the least of my worries.

 

Been wondering as well why there wasn't much topic about this fans, I suppose because it's fairly new but here's a vid instead. Sorry for the bad camera quality but I think this should show what you're looking for

 

 

[Tashdeed]

3 minutes ago, ZeferiniX said:

Hello, it's a bit odd though since it works on certain orders. Either way, it's working well. I have no plans to water cool and have AC in the room so temps are the least of my worries.

 

Been wondering as well why there wasn't much topic about this fans, I suppose because it's fairly new but here's a vid instead. Sorry for the bad camera quality but I think this should show what you're looking for

 

 

Hi! Thank you so much for the upload!
I think now I have enough confidence to go and but these fans.

I do have a question though. Your mobo is a tomahawk it seems. It lacks ARGB header.

So, you've just plugged the controller to a RGB header, yes?
Also, how's mystic light's sync up with the fans? Because they are supposed to sync with mystic light on both A-RGB and RGB header.

[ZeferiniX]

10 minutes ago, Tashdeed said:

Hi! Thank you so much for the upload!
I think now I have enough confidence to go and but these fans.

I do have a question though. Your mobo is a tomahawk it seems. It lacks ARGB header.

So, you've just plugged the controller to a RGB header, yes?
Also, how's mystic light's sync up with the fans? Because they are supposed to sync with mystic light on both A-RGB and RGB header.

No problem. They look pretty nice and can get really bright.

 

Yes it lacks ARGB 5v 3pin header and I learned the hard way lmao. The Deepcool Gammaxx GT RGB cooler uses 12v 4pin header and is compatible with my MoBo so that is synced together with Mystic Light. As for the fans, the fans are just connected to the hub that is being powered by SATA and is controlled by the remote controller (currently). I'm hoping to sync them to the MoBo through these (just literally ordered them a few hours ago):

1. http://www.gamerstorm.com/product/ACCESSORY/2019-03/1291_10731.shtml

2. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/rgb-accessories/argb-1-to-3-splitter-cable/

 

As for why you think I might need a splitter, the black acrylic stand you see on top of my case is an ARGB GPU Card Holder (cover not yet peeled) and is unfortunately a 5v 3pin one so now I have 2 5v 3pin headers waiting to be plugged so my aim is to connect the gamdias fan hub and the gpu card holder to the splitter and hope they sync up with Mystic Light.

[Tashdeed]

6 minutes ago, ZeferiniX said:

No problem. They look pretty nice and can get really bright.

 

Yes it lacks ARGB 5v 3pin header and I learned the hard way lmao. The Deepcool Gammaxx GT RGB cooler uses 12v 4pin header and is compatible with my MoBo so that is synced together with Mystic Light. As for the fans, the fans are just connected to the hub that is being powered by SATA and is controlled by the remote controller (currently). I'm hoping to sync them to the MoBo through these (just literally ordered them a few hours ago):

1. http://www.gamerstorm.com/product/ACCESSORY/2019-03/1291_10731.shtml

2. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/rgb-accessories/argb-1-to-3-splitter-cable/

 

As for why you think I might need a splitter, the black acrylic stand you see on top of my case is an ARGB GPU Card Holder (cover not yet peeled) and is unfortunately a 5v 3pin one so now I have 2 5v 3pin headers waiting to be plugged so my aim is to connect the gamdias fan hub and the gpu card holder to the splitter and hope they sync up with Mystic Light.

as per the website the controller that comes with it should be able to connect to the 4pin 12V RGB connector. Sure, there will be lack of functionality for ARGB but RGB controls through mystic light should exist.
As in, the controller as per website should have one wire connecting to a 12v 4pin RGB header.

[Tashdeed]

10 minutes ago, ZeferiniX said:

No problem. They look pretty nice and can get really bright.

 

Yes it lacks ARGB 5v 3pin header and I learned the hard way lmao. The Deepcool Gammaxx GT RGB cooler uses 12v 4pin header and is compatible with my MoBo so that is synced together with Mystic Light. As for the fans, the fans are just connected to the hub that is being powered by SATA and is controlled by the remote controller (currently). I'm hoping to sync them to the MoBo through these (just literally ordered them a few hours ago):

1. http://www.gamerstorm.com/product/ACCESSORY/2019-03/1291_10731.shtml

2. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/rgb-accessories/argb-1-to-3-splitter-cable/

 

As for why you think I might need a splitter, the black acrylic stand you see on top of my case is an ARGB GPU Card Holder (cover not yet peeled) and is unfortunately a 5v 3pin one so now I have 2 5v 3pin headers waiting to be plugged so my aim is to connect the gamdias fan hub and the gpu card holder to the splitter and hope they sync up with Mystic Light.

ok, my bad, I just rechecked the manufacturer's website and it seems there isn't a connection for the controller to connect to the 4pin 12v RGB header

But you plan to sync all the fans to the RGB header with a splitter?
If so, how do you plan to power all the 4 fans?

[ZeferiniX]

Just now, Tashdeed said:

ok, my bad, I just rechecked the manufacturer's website and it seems there isn't a connection for the controller to connect to the 4pin 12v RGB header

But you plan to sync all the fans to the RGB header with a splitter?
If so, how do you plan to power all the 4 fans?

Yeah, no connection for the controller to connect to the 4pin 12v rgb header. The 4 fans will still be powered by the hub.As for the lights, see red box in the image below

 

 

That's a LED IN port which is supposed to connect directly to the MoBo with the 5v 3pin header but since I don't have that header, this will go instead to the splitter which is then connected to the RGB Convertor then to the MoBo.

[Tashdeed]

5 minutes ago, ZeferiniX said:

Yeah, no connection for the controller to connect to the 4pin 12v rgb header. The 4 fans will still be powered by the hub.As for the lights, see red box in the image below

 

 

That's a LED IN port which is supposed to connect directly to the MoBo with the 5v 3pin header but since I don't have that header, this will go instead to the splitter which is then connected to the RGB Convertor then to the MoBo.

orrite!

The splitter is 1:3.
So, the '1' will be connected to the RGB header and the '3' will be in the 'LED In' in the Gamdius controller?
Just referring to the Cooler Master splitter linked above.

[ZeferiniX]

1 minute ago, Tashdeed said:

orrite!

The splitter is 1:3.
So, the '1' will be connected to the RGB header and the '3' will be in the 'LED In' in the Gamdius controller?
Just referring to the Cooler Master splitter linked above.

Correct, 1 of the '3' will be, indirectly, in the 'LED In'.

[Tashdeed]

21 minutes ago, ZeferiniX said:

Correct, 1 of the '3' will be, indirectly, in the 'LED In'.

Thanks for that!

Please give an update after you sync them up like how you are intending with the new splitter!

[ZeferiniX]

28 minutes ago, Tashdeed said:

Thanks for that!

Please give an update after you sync them up like how you are intending with the new splitter!

You're welcome. Hope it works as planned! And sure, it'll take some time due to logistics but yea

[Tashdeed]

On 9/10/2019 at 12:27 AM, ZeferiniX said:

You're welcome. Hope it works as planned! And sure, it'll take some time due to logistics but yea

Hi ZeferiniX!
Hope you're well! have you ordered the above A-RGB controllers yet?

[ZeferiniX]

1 hour ago, Tashdeed said:

Hi ZeferiniX!
Hope you're well! have you ordered the above A-RGB controllers yet?

Still waiting unfortunately. Will update you when both arrives

[ZeferiniX]

Hey @Tashdeed, been a while. Thought I'd update as it just arrived today and managed to sync them. 1st video is on Rainbow Mode in Mystic Light and 2nd video is on Color Shift Mode. It seems to jerk when on Color Shift Mode, observe the cpu cooler and its fan vs the graphics card holder and the chassis fans. I'm guessing it's because the 5v is more capable of producing more colors but is misinterpreting the signals from the 12v JRGB headers in the MoBo.

 

 

RGB Cable Routes Setup:

JRGB1 (MoBo) Header:

- CPU Cooler and Fan via bundled splitter with the Deepcool Gammaxx GT

JRGB2 (MoBo) Header:

- Deepcool/Gamerstorm RGB Convertor

 

Deepcool/GamerStorm RGB Convertor:

- Coolermaster Splitter via 5v slot

 

CoolerMaster Splitter:

- Graphics Card Holder 5v header (Hatsune Miku Design)

- Gamdias Aeolus Box II LED IN slot

 

Gamdias Aeolus Box II

- 4x Gamdias Aeolus M2-1204R fan

[Tashdeed]

On 9/21/2019 at 12:55 PM, ZeferiniX said:

Hey @Tashdeed, been a while. Thought I'd update as it just arrived today and managed to sync them. 1st video is on Rainbow Mode in Mystic Light and 2nd video is on Color Shift Mode. It seems to jerk when on Color Shift Mode, observe the cpu cooler and its fan vs the graphics card holder and the chassis fans. I'm guessing it's because the 5v is more capable of producing more colors but is misinterpreting the signals from the 12v JRGB headers in the MoBo.

 

 

RGB Cable Routes Setup:

JRGB1 (MoBo) Header:

- CPU Cooler and Fan via bundled splitter with the Deepcool Gammaxx GT

JRGB2 (MoBo) Header:

- Deepcool/Gamerstorm RGB Convertor

 

Deepcool/GamerStorm RGB Convertor:

- Coolermaster Splitter via 5v slot

 

CoolerMaster Splitter:

- Graphics Card Holder 5v header (Hatsune Miku Design)

- Gamdias Aeolus Box II LED IN slot

 

Gamdias Aeolus Box II

- 4x Gamdias Aeolus M2-1204R fan

Hi Zeferinix!

Ya, it's been a very long while. A lot happened here so I could not log in and update you on what I was upto in the meanwhile!

But first, your set up looks absolutely great! Good to know that you could sync them up with mystic light! This converter seems to be a GEM for those without A-RGB mobo header! Thank you for the update!

 

I was also very keen to buy these 4 fans from Gamdias but had a very different change of plans later on. I instead bought the Cooler Master MF120R fan (single) for rear exhaust and bought a CM ML240R liquid cooler for CPU. So, my set up for cooling is different. This one came with a controller so dealing with that right now.

I really wanned to buy the Gamdias M2-240R but its fan speeds can't be controlled via pwm (based on temperature of CPU). That bugged me for a few days so I just thought "Oh what the hell! I want radiator fan speeds to change based on cpu temp!" So I got the cooler master. The gamdias is great too but I felt that changing a radiator fan speed with remote may not be the best idea during variable cpu loads!

 

So ya, that was my update! Really sorry for the late reply though! It took some time to actually buy a casing which arrived in my country late! That was the main reason for the hold up.

 

Regards!

[ZeferiniX]

On 10/7/2019 at 7:30 AM, Tashdeed said:

Hi Zeferinix!

Ya, it's been a very long while. A lot happened here so I could not log in and update you on what I was upto in the meanwhile!

But first, your set up looks absolutely great! Good to know that you could sync them up with mystic light! This converter seems to be a GEM for those without A-RGB mobo header! Thank you for the update!

 

I was also very keen to buy these 4 fans from Gamdias but had a very different change of plans later on. I instead bought the Cooler Master MF120R fan (single) for rear exhaust and bought a CM ML240R liquid cooler for CPU. So, my set up for cooling is different. This one came with a controller so dealing with that right now.

I really wanned to buy the Gamdias M2-240R but its fan speeds can't be controlled via pwm (based on temperature of CPU). That bugged me for a few days so I just thought "Oh what the hell! I want radiator fan speeds to change based on cpu temp!" So I got the cooler master. The gamdias is great too but I felt that changing a radiator fan speed with remote may not be the best idea during variable cpu loads!

 

So ya, that was my update! Really sorry for the late reply though! It took some time to actually buy a casing which arrived in my country late! That was the main reason for the hold up.

 

Regards!

Thanks! Really happy with how it turned out~

 

Sounds good! Good luck on your build mate!