Please Help ASUS AI Suite 3 Fan Xpert = Lies / Overheats

MrGawain

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Jul 1, 2016
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I have been playing with these controls for hours without success only to find the program is a spoof. As I play my favorite games the fan settings reset to low flagging a temp shutdown. I attempted to resolved the setting issue to discover that the program does not actually relay factual data.

The first issue is that I have 3 case fans and CPU fan. The program Identified one of the fans as the a water pump.

I checked the pin settings on the board and the water pump is empty but the fans are all linked to fan ports.

My first assumption was that it misread the ports and fan positions so I attempted to identify the fans manually.

Doing a forced physical fan stop should render one fan as Zero RPMs. This is usually supported in most systems so that you can identify a faulty fan.

However; Doing a forced stop on a chassis fan It did not. The ASUS AI continued to read all fans as operating normally even though one was not spinning.

As a result I downloaded a independent monitor app. The results between the two were vastly different. I downloaded a second monitor as a control. The two independent monitor apps read the same data, which did not match ASUS AI

This leads me to believe that the ASUS AI detects that a port is being used, randomly assigns fan position and operation, and presents a False RPM based on power output.

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Problem = My system continues to randomly reset to the minimum fan settings, causing the unit to overheats at 65C. The board is providing information the AI simply does not relay that information accurately. So if the ASUS AI lies how do I bypass it and force board powered Fans to run at full RPMs?
 
Just out of intrest, are all of the system fans wired for four pins or have four wires coming off them connected to each fan header`s of the motherboard each MrGawain ?

What model number of Asus mother board is it you have also please ?
If you have a case fan connected to the cpu opt fan header of the board it assigns that as a water pump by default.

There should be two fan headers side by side, on the motherboard, one that says cpu fan, and the other saying opt fan.

Opt fan header as said is treated as a water pump connection of four wires.