Question to A8N-SLI Premium owners

[Ph0b0s]

Hey,

Might have been asked before, but could not find it in searches. My problem is with 'Asus Probe' reporting that my power supply fan speed is 0. My power supply is definitely sending out stats though it's cable. If I plug it into the Chassi Fan 1 Pin's, I get details. Anyone else getting this? Or are you all getting your power supply fan speeds displayed properly in 'Asus Probe'. For those of you that use it that is...

Have asked Asus this, but they said that it does not work since the board does not support Q-Fan 2!? Thought it did. Also why bother having the pin's on the board and a line in Asus Probe if it's not supported!?

Also are there any better fan speed temperature programs than 'Asus Probe'? Say one that shows the speed being reported to all the fan pin's, on the board e.g Chassi Fan 2, etc . I have tried 'Fan Speed', but this shows the same as 'Asus Probe'. Maybe the A8N boards can only give details about 3 fan's. On the Deluxe board I had before it was CPU, Chassi 1 and Chipset Fan's. I assumed that since chipset is redundant on Premium boards they enabled the power supply details.

Anyway I just want to check if I have a faulty board before pressing the issue with Asus for a replacement....

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AMD A64 4000+
A8N-SLI Premium v1.007
Sapphire X850 PE w Arctic Cooling
1GB Cossair 3200XL Pro Memory
XP Pro
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Tower
Antec NeoPower 480W Supply

 

[Deadalus]

I have the same issue... my PSU's fan speed is not reported. Thought it was a faulty header, but I wasn't bothered to get a replacement.

I had an A8N-Deluxe before and I'm sure it supported PSU fan speed monitoring.

 

[mode101wpb]

It might be because your power supply doesn't have a speed sensor installed, I have a PC Power & Cooling unit and I have the same issue. I don't know if it has a speed sensor but read this might be the reason, could be the connector too?

I downloaded the latest version from ASUS'S site V2.24.10 and don't see any improvement.

Speedfan may work, but I haven't tried it?

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

 

[mode101wpb]

I had no luck with Speedfan either.

I also tried Everest Home which is a nice program, but it only shows 1 fan.

http://www.lavalys.hu/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en

I'm lost for ideas, but I think ASUS Probe sucks anyways.

 

[virtualrain]

I've had two Premium boards now and both boards only report Fan RPM on the CPU fan header and the Chassis 1 fan header. The other fan headers do not.

There is no other software that will support this... If the BIOS doesn't support it, no software will be able to work around this.

 

[mudboy]

No problems here, reads my Antec NeoPower PS fan, 120mm Globe fan (rear case), and 92mm Zalman fan (CPU) just fine.

Pete

 

[mode101wpb]

I can't get any readings for the case fans or the PSU fan, maybe this is due to the fact I have both case fans intake and outtake plugged into the PSU directly, not through the motherboard?

 

[Deadalus]

Originally posted by: mudboy
No problems here, reads my Antec NeoPower PS fan, 120mm Globe fan (rear case), and 92mm Zalman fan (CPU) just fine.

Pete

Strange, I have the same PSU and I can't get it to monitor mine. CPU and Chassis fan monitoring works fine.

 

[mode101wpb]

I can't monitor my chassis fan since it's plugged directly into the PSU, I didn't see a connector suitable on the motherboard for the large fan connector.

 

[mudboy]

Originally posted by: mode101wpb
I can't get any readings for the case fans or the PSU fan, maybe this is due to the fact I have both case fans intake and outtake plugged into the PSU directly, not through the motherboard?

Sorry to be harsh, but I would file that one under "well, effing duh!"
PSU case fan connectors aren't going to have RPM monitoring.

Pete

 

[mode101wpb]

Originally posted by: mudboy

Originally posted by: mode101wpb
I can't get any readings for the case fans or the PSU fan, maybe this is due to the fact I have both case fans intake and outtake plugged into the PSU directly, not through the motherboard?

Sorry to be harsh, but I would file that one under "well, effing duh!"
PSU case fan connectors aren't going to have RPM monitoring.

Pete

Sorry to be harsh back, but making a comment like that without researching it yourself is pretty stupid.

Some PSU's have a RPM fan connector, like the Seasonic S12.

http://www.modsynergy.com/review151.htm

"1 PSU fan RPM connector"

 

[aurelius97]

Originally posted by: Deadalus

Originally posted by: mudboy
No problems here, reads my Antec NeoPower PS fan, 120mm Globe fan (rear case), and 92mm Zalman fan (CPU) just fine.

Pete

Strange, I have the same PSU and I can't get it to monitor mine. CPU and Chassis fan monitoring works fine.

I too have the Neopower 480 with no readings.

 

[Pl0p]

I have no readings either:
Antec TrueControl 550W with RPM cable to connect to mobo.

The ASUS A8N-SLI Premium booklet also says that the only CHA_FAN1 and CPU_FAN (CPU_FAN synched with CHIPSET_FAN, which is not used of course) are Q-FAN's: higher RPM on higher temps.

This gives me a little problem: my 2 modded SLI 7800 are connected to CHA1 en CHA2, so CHA1 is effeciently cooling my GPU when temps go up while the other stays at the same RPM's... Will change that with a FAN Control bay with Temp monitors: only manual setting of course.

Booklet also says that CH_FAN is synched with CPU_FAN so you can use that one as well to get a chassis van rev up.

 

[mudboy]

Originally posted by: mode101wpb

Originally posted by: mudboy

Originally posted by: mode101wpb
I can't get any readings for the case fans or the PSU fan, maybe this is due to the fact I have both case fans intake and outtake plugged into the PSU directly, not through the motherboard?

Sorry to be harsh, but I would file that one under "well, effing duh!"
PSU case fan connectors aren't going to have RPM monitoring.

Pete

Sorry to be harsh back, but making a comment like that without researching it yourself is pretty stupid.

Some PSU's have a RPM fan connector, like the Seasonic S12.

http://www.modsynergy.com/review151.htm

"1 PSU fan RPM connector"

You're talking apples and oranges.

If you have case fans plugged "directly" into the PSU, it will be via the 4 pin Molex connectors, which do not have any RPM monitoring capability.

PSU Fan RPM connector is going to monitor the RPM of the fan that is in the PSU itself, not the fans that are connected to the fan-only Molex connectors that the power supply might have.

So, yeah, I do know what the f*ck I'm talking about.

Pete

 

[Ph0b0s]

Thanks for all your responses. It looks like it is not just my board then. So either it is a dodgy batch or ASUS put this in by mistake. To those people it is working for, is you power supply fan monitor cable plugged into the 'pwr' connector or one of the 'chassi' connector? Anyway thanks again for the responses.

 

[gbohn]

Originally posted by: Ph0b0s
Thanks for all your responses. It looks like it is not just my board then. So either it is a dodgy batch or ASUS put this in by mistake. To those people it is working for, is you power supply fan monitor cable plugged into the 'pwr' connector or one of the 'chassi' connector? Anyway thanks again for the responses.

On the A8N-E I have I noticed that the Nforce Chipset fan was reported as 'power supply' fan speed in AsusProbe (and the Power supply speed was not being reported at all when plugged into the motherbaord header for it).

When I went to the A8N-SLI Premium (V 2.00), I just plugged the S12 fan speed header into the (unused on this baord) fan header that would have been used by the chipset fan, had there been one...

Voilla, I now get the power supply fan speed reported as 'Power supply' fan speed. Q.E.D.

I have the CPU fan, 'Power supply fan' (really chipset header fan), and one of the Chassis fan (the one by the LED/Power/Speaker connections) speeds all working in AsusProbe.

I don't know if newer A8N-SLI Premiums still have the chipset fan header (and passive chipset cooling) or not...