I recently picked up a B Spec case from Novatech UK, the MSI Vampiric 100R... and despite the reviews, it's really not very good, but that's a story for another time. After much agonizing cable management, I managed to get it up and running, with all fans and case lit and spinning. But at some point in the 4 days since, the rear ARGB fan will light up, but has stopped turning.
Behold the shockingly poor MSI manual. In real life, it's only about 8 inches tall, so it was impossible to see they've cheaped out and put a single bay drive right next to the power, and expects you to screw a second drive on top of it. Mmmmm. Anyway, turn to page 12 . It both says to NOT connect the ARGB to the SYS_FAN on the board, but also visually shows ARGB fans in series but ending in 2 different points connected to SYS_FAN. The case came with one ARGB at the rear, one non-ARGB at the front, so what I did was connect the ARGB to the 4 pin connection that goes to the case controller, the case controller to the SATA power/motherboard, and the front fan directly to SYS_FAN. This seemed to work for all the fans but as mentioned, the rear has now stopped turning.
It might be because it's got so cold in the UK, and my PC is running at around 26c at the moment; but I can't find any way to access the rear fan to manually try and spin it to see if the motors have gone. BIOS doesn't recognise it, and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to access the case mounted ARGB controller; because of the manual's warning I've been loath to dismount the front fan and attach the ARGB fan directly to SYS_FAN and see if it spins that way... how do the folks here recommend I test the ARGB fan motor please?
Behold the shockingly poor MSI manual. In real life, it's only about 8 inches tall, so it was impossible to see they've cheaped out and put a single bay drive right next to the power, and expects you to screw a second drive on top of it. Mmmmm. Anyway, turn to page 12 . It both says to NOT connect the ARGB to the SYS_FAN on the board, but also visually shows ARGB fans in series but ending in 2 different points connected to SYS_FAN. The case came with one ARGB at the rear, one non-ARGB at the front, so what I did was connect the ARGB to the 4 pin connection that goes to the case controller, the case controller to the SATA power/motherboard, and the front fan directly to SYS_FAN. This seemed to work for all the fans but as mentioned, the rear has now stopped turning.
It might be because it's got so cold in the UK, and my PC is running at around 26c at the moment; but I can't find any way to access the rear fan to manually try and spin it to see if the motors have gone. BIOS doesn't recognise it, and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to access the case mounted ARGB controller; because of the manual's warning I've been loath to dismount the front fan and attach the ARGB fan directly to SYS_FAN and see if it spins that way... how do the folks here recommend I test the ARGB fan motor please?