September 27Sep 27 Hi, I have an elitedesk g5 800 mini, I also have a HDD which is constantly getting hot from use, so I need a solution, I tried the AI chatbots but heaven forbid it comes out with anything useable. I bought the Arctic fan controller and a usb to usb header cable, its all connected to a spare sata cable. but I cant get neither FanCTRL 2 nor OpenFanController to actually see it. Can anyone recommend me a fan controller that will work, or even better a way to get the arctic working and save me some money.Thanks so much in advance.
September 27Sep 27 I use Owltree PWM Fan controllers - the manual knob you turn yourself - from amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DPZM7T3Q/)I used a usb-c to power the controller and connect the fans to the header. I just leave the fans running because AFAIK the micro pc's don't usually have a good fan header on the motherboard, other than the one powering the shroud fan (which you could also split if you wanted). If you're using SFF, you might have a few more options. You can also make sure the BIOS is updated.its all connected to a spare sata cableSATA power cable, I assume? That's just going to provide power. How are you connecting the controller to your motherboard? That's a PWM 4-pin input (I have an Artic controller as well) that needs a PWM signal. Edited September 27Sep 27 by whipdancer
September 27Sep 27 Author Since my server is a very low usage one it is kind of overkill to have it running all the time with a knob, so i was hoping to avoid it. 2 hours ago, whipdancer said:I use Owltree PWM Fan controllers - the manual knob you turn yourself - from amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DPZM7T3Q/)Since the elitedesk doesn't have anything really to plug into in the motherboard i bought a usb to usb header which i know unraid can see the controller though when I use some terminal command which I don't remember (The ai said to to it when I tried to listen to it) but I couldn't get it to connect to the software. 2 hours ago, whipdancer said:How are you connecting the controller to your motherboard? That's a PWM 4-pin input (I have an Artic controller as well) that needs a PWM signal.Thanks
September 28Sep 28 Did you find anything that confirms the directions you received from ai work for others?
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