Need help from any Argus Monitor users! (FAN CONTROL)

[your_trusted_friend]

Hi!

 

First off, im terribly sorry if i put this in the wrong category, im hoping as this is a fan control program it counts as a cooling topic.

 

So, ive been using Argus monitor to control my PC fans for the last year, and all has been fine and good. However, after recently trying to change the fan curves ive realized that all the settings on the program do nothing. It seems to still remember my old fan curves but they appear to be locked in place permanently.

 

Ive done the usual, restart pc, uninstall reinstall etc. I wiped the entire registery key folder and it did the trick in removing the old fan curves, however now theres NO fan control ability whatsoever.

 

Im just wondering has anyone experienced this?

 

Thanks so much for any answers :)

[Skiiwee29]

I use Argus myself and have no issues. Can you post screenshots of your controls?

[your_trusted_friend]

currently i literarily have the stock controls, all on bios controlled, but i can fiddle with them as much as i want and nothing happens

 

theres two images here kinda sandwitched, the botttom one shows them all at default and the long one shows what happens when i max one of them... which is nothing

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, your_trusted_friend said:

currently i literarily have the stock controls, all on bios controlled, but i can fiddle with them as much as i want and nothing happens

 

theres two images here kinda sandwitched, the botttom one shows them all at default and the long one shows what happens when i max one of them... which is nothing

what kind of fans do you have connected to your motherboard? 

[your_trusted_friend]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

what kind of fans do you have connected to your motherboard? 

This is a prebuilt Lenovo Pc... so i guess some Foxconn cheapo stuff

However the fans should be controllable since they were fully a year ago.

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, your_trusted_friend said:

This is a prebuilt Lenovo Pc... so i guess some Foxconn cheapo stuff

However the fans should be controllable since they were fully a year ago.

I presume they're 4 pin PWM fans then since you mentioned they were controllable previously. Did you update the BIOS or board potentially? Problem with prebuilts from the likes of Lenovo or HP or Dell is they use proprietary non standard connections a lot and may have changed up the way the signaling works with newer BIOS releases. 

[your_trusted_friend]

Ah dammit i just realized that I CAN control GPU fan speeds with Argus... it seems to point that something is wrong with Argus interfacing with the motherboard chipset.. maybe Lenovo sneaked in something nasty via Windows update...

[your_trusted_friend]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I presume they're 4 pin PWM fans then since you mentioned they were controllable previously. Did you update the BIOS or board potentially? Problem with prebuilts from the likes of Lenovo or HP or Dell is they use proprietary non standard connections a lot and may have changed up the way the signaling works with newer BIOS releases. 

 

1 minute ago, your_trusted_friend said:

Ah dammit i just realized that I CAN control GPU fan speeds with Argus... it seems to point that something is wrong with Argus interfacing with the motherboard chipset.. maybe Lenovo sneaked in something nasty via Windows update...

 

Wow we posted at the same time . Yeah i guess your right. but i havent upgraded the board or bios at all manually. Do you know if OEM manufacturers can sneak stuff like that via Win Update?

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, your_trusted_friend said:

 

 

Wow we posted at the same time . Yeah i guess your right. but i havent upgraded the board or bios at all manually. Do you know if OEM manufacturers can sneak stuff like that via Win Update?

no they can't. 

[your_trusted_friend]

4 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

no they can't. 

Oof im not so sure about that, i checked my Windows Update logs and three months ago a "Lenovo Firmware 1.0.0.17" was installed, maybe that was the root cause and it took this long for me to notice it since i didnt have any reason to change the settings :S.  Nevertheless ive contacted Argotronic support about this and hopefully they can ID a fix on their end if its really caused by that.

 

Thanks for your help in narrowing it down