[SOLVED] Can I control DC fans through third party software?

[brotherwhoneedshelp]

Can I control DC fans in desktop or are they only controllable though BIOS?

 

[CountMike]

Can I control DC fans in desktop or are they only controllable though BIOS?

Yes, of course but there's no many usable SW any more. Ther's no need for such SW anyway as you can set fan speed curve in most modern BIOSes.

 

[CElliott-316]

I don't know why it does this, but the first action Windows takes when it starts up is to turn the speeds of the fans way down. You can make the fans roar in the BIOS, but Windows, at least through 8.1, will turn them down to a gentle breeze.

Speedfan stopped being supported with version 4.52; it may or may not work on your computer. You can do a search on "Alternatives to Speedfan" in Google and several names will be returned. Also, there is software named "Open Hardware Monitor" at openhardwaremonitor.org. It works well, but only in C# AFAIK, in detecting temperatures. If you can program in C# (it is very close to C++, which is close to C, and there is good documentation on the Microsoft website, and the free version of Microsoft Visual Studio supports it ), you might try rolling your own fan control software. (There must be an API in Win32 API for fan control, because Windows does it. The Win32 API is documented on the Microsoft website. Microsoft claims to be working on a new, simpler Windows API, but it may not be available yet. API == Application Programming Interface.)
https://openhardwaremonitor.org/