I know there have been alot of other people with a similar problem, but when i tried using search function i just got a "thread does not excist" message, so i guess ill ask again :S
I resently baught 2 Arctic Cooling 80mm fans for my case, since i found out that my gfx card was running at 70C when idling. However, for some reason, they arn't active when i turn on the computer.
I placed them on the back pannel since that was the only obvious place i could put them. On the fans there were 4 pin sockets and 3 pin plugs, i put a 3 pin plug from each fan into seperate 3 pin sockets on the motherboard (im using a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P motherboard), which were labeled sys_fan1/sys_fan3 in the users manual for the motherboard. Each socket supplies 12V, which according to the instructions on the fan boxes are what they require, and according to the manual the sockets are used for case fans.
I have tried looking through the BIOS sections, but since im not really a wiz at this stuff im a bit apprehensive about touching any of the settings there, and i couldnt find anything related to fans, except a section under PC Health Status that indicated that my fans were running at 0 rpm .
Anybody have some ideas as to what i could try?
I resently baught 2 Arctic Cooling 80mm fans for my case, since i found out that my gfx card was running at 70C when idling. However, for some reason, they arn't active when i turn on the computer.
I placed them on the back pannel since that was the only obvious place i could put them. On the fans there were 4 pin sockets and 3 pin plugs, i put a 3 pin plug from each fan into seperate 3 pin sockets on the motherboard (im using a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P motherboard), which were labeled sys_fan1/sys_fan3 in the users manual for the motherboard. Each socket supplies 12V, which according to the instructions on the fan boxes are what they require, and according to the manual the sockets are used for case fans.
I have tried looking through the BIOS sections, but since im not really a wiz at this stuff im a bit apprehensive about touching any of the settings there, and i couldnt find anything related to fans, except a section under PC Health Status that indicated that my fans were running at 0 rpm .
Anybody have some ideas as to what i could try?