Control fan speed through BIOS?

[TheOnlyShad0w]

I have three 120mm fans hooked up via this connector. They are much too loud at 100% and I'd like to drop the speed a little. I've plugged the 4 pin connector on that cable I linked into the motherboard's "SYS_fan" port, but I can't find any sort of fan control within the BIOS of my Gigabyte GA-H110M-A.

Would it be possible to set these fans on some sort of automatic mode or at least drop them to say 50%? Or will I just need to get a fan controller?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ragnarous]

There is probably an option in your motherboard, but i also changed my mind as well after even the lowest setting was still too loud on my mobo. I ended up buying a fan controller and hooked all the fan cables on the back of my case making it look much cleaner as well as making my fans silent too!

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5589#manual
section on System Fan Speed Control

 

[TheOnlyShad0w]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5589#manual
section on System Fan Speed Control

Well I found the section to control the speeds but for one thing the system fan ROM is reporting as 0 and changing the speed setting doesn't seem to do anything. Is the cable I'm using not working?

 

[TheOnlyShad0w]

Looks like my 3 pin fans won't work with this adapter. It uses the fourth pin to control speed I guess. Crap.

 

[rgd1101]

yes only 4pin works for speed control. get something like Ragnarous suggest.

 

[TheOnlyShad0w]

yes only 4pin works for speed control. get something like Ragnarous suggest.

What is that?

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=FAN%20CONTROLLER&Submit=ENE

 

[TheOnlyShad0w]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=FAN%20CONTROLLER&Submit=ENE

Ahh. A fan controller. I suspected I'd have to go that route.

 

[Ragnarous]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=FAN%20CONTROLLER&Submit=ENE

Ahh. A fan controller. I suspected I'd have to go that route.

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[reek12]

Gigabyte has their own utility software to control fan speed. Have you tried Gigabyte System Information Viewer? Here is a link to the software.

http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/369/images/system-tweaking.html