Fan, weird fan

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Weird, when I tried to increase the manual control of the cpu fan when running 4 instances of prime I got some strange effect, it suddenly sounded the alarm in the fancontroller. After trying it a few more times was clear that the cpu fan stopped completly when setting it manually to max (100%). That´s not good when running prime... :rolleyes:

Very strange, why would it do that? Did some testing of the other fans of fan14 and found out that it was the same with all of them.

The other fancontroller works normally and it easy to see as fan8: ext hdd sits right here on the table and cools some external harddisks, which I start manually when needed, and it worked now as well as all other fans on fancontroller fan58.


fancontrollers
fan14: 1:cpu 2:door 3:twin80 4:case
fan58: 5:top out 6:hdd in nb 7:hdd in pci: 8:ext hdd

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I have now restarted the computer etc and checked the usb cable to the fancontrollers, I´m using the internal usb headers, and as I got one working it should be the same pin layout on the other one, and everything looks alright.




Some time ago I did have some usb problem, heard the disconnect/reconnect usb sound serveral times, and had to reseat the usb cables and after that it worked...
...maybe not, I don´t know yet what´s going on as it looks alright.


As far as I know it hasn´t caused any damage as the fancontroller curves set to relativly low settings, lets say 20-40% rpm, which inverted should be 80-60% rpm



I know it worked correctly in my old setup seen in the Stacker SLACKER! thread here (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2690836&postcount=1681), don´t mind the cablemangement there it little bit better now :D

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Is there anything or any setting in the T-Balancer Navigator 2.9 software that got inverted of something or what got it be?

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I´m sure there are some out the there that have tried the mCubed T-Balancer XL, please let me know your experience.

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The usb cable was taken out, checked, it looked ok, and reseated. The inverted fan-trottle-control problem still persisted and the computer fans in silent mode means almost full throttle... :rolleyes:



This must be some freak problem since after transfered the last profile to the T-Balancer XL it worked again, it dident´t do that yesterday afaik. Great finally solved the problem but there are some serious issues with reability here which probably has something to do with the usb cable not performing 100% reliable. This perticular usb cable is however extended with one of the digital sensor 4-pin cables but it looks like it has the same function anyway just some diffrent colors in pinlayout which I carefully triple checked to make sure it was connected correctly.


I could order some internal usb cable thats about 70cm long if I kind find it anywhere?


However I feel that the two usb 1.1 fancontrollers wastes two of the internal USB 2.0 ports of the Gigabyte P35-DQ6 motherboard and would like some other solution in the long run.


One fancontroller can be connected to standard external usb ports but it does not work when you connect two of them as the mCubed T-Balancer Navigator 2 software is not really designed to be used with two fancontrollers. I works as long as you use an other usb driver where you can set manually which usb/serial port it will use and make it only listen to that port.


Will try to look for some alternatives of how to get it to work on a standard external usb port or if its possible to get some cheap USB 2 hub that can be used internally instead.