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This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.
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[Question] How do I control PWM? #1342

Open Lion4K opened 1 year ago

Lion4K commented 1 year ago

Sorry, but I don't understand how to configure the app. Can you please help me? PWM1 = CPU_FAN | PWM2 = SYS_FAN I am trying to control the PWM2 using your app because as I understand I can link it to other stuff and make them go on matching speeds right? I'd like to link the PWM2 to the same parameters as PWM1 because for some reason my motherboard doesn't automatically make the fans on PWM2 any faster. The other app on the image is able to manually set it's speed, but since your app does that automatically and have auto startup, I'd rather go with it. image

Best Regards!

Rem0o commented 1 year ago

From what I can see, the auto setup couldn't control any of yours. I don't think your motherboard is compatible.

Lion4K commented 1 year ago

I see.

And do you think it's something that can be implemented? Because the other software on the screen "SpeedFan" is able to control the fan. So it seems to me that it's a matter of how the software tries to interface with the PWM header?

Lion4K commented 1 year ago

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Rem0o commented 1 year ago

Could be. See the README on hardware compatibility.

Lion4K commented 1 year ago

I also got these errors image

Lion4K commented 1 year ago

I tried reading the readme, but I don't understand it. I tried adding all the plugins I could find but none of them loaded. something about unlocking them?

I found this on the SpeedFan app, maybe it can be useful? image

Fr0stX76 commented 1 year ago

I tried reading the readme, but I don't understand it. I tried adding all the plugins I could find but none of them loaded. something about unlocking them?

See this part of the readme:

I am not the main developer for the driver/backend portion of this software. Fan Control is basically a UI on top of existing hardware libraries. Any issue regarding hardware compatibility entirely depends on the following projects. If you can't contribute meaningfully with a branch/PR, don't pollute their issue page with "XXXXX doesn't work". The hardware is needed for testing. If a dev has interest in that project, is browsing it, has your specific hardware AND the knowledge to make it work, that dev won't be looking for your issue, he'll just raise a PR.

https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

https://github.com/falahati/NvAPIWrapper

eturk1 commented 1 year ago

Can PWM fans be recognized so we can get lower fan speeds?

Example I've got a Noctua PWM case fan w/ max speed pf 3000 rpm. Fan Control sees 45% (~1400rpm) as it's stall BUT it should be able to go down to 750rpm. PWM would allow that.