Gigabyte motherboard fan control?

alluringreality · Post by **alluringreality** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:31 pm

I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard. How can I control the fan speeds with this board? The impression I got looking at the manual is that both the CPU and system fans could be controlled by the motherboard.

- Using speedfan the RPMs make no sense at all and setting the speeds 0 has no effect.

- Using Easy Tune 5 does allow me to change the CPU fan, but not the system fan.

Lawrence Lee · Post by **Lawrence Lee** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:05 pm

The two 4-pin fan headers can be controlled with Speedfan. But you need to go into the Advanced menu and change the PWM modes on one of the chips to "Software controlled."

puscifer · Post by **puscifer** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:21 am

I got a P35-DS4 so i don't know if this applies although i went into advanced and configured the PWM on the IT8712F to software controlled with no results, i still get rpms on only one and its reading 675000! Guess i'll have to wait for support for P35 :/

shantaram · Post by **shantaram** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:18 am

Alluringreality did you get it to work?

I am looking at the same Giga board and was hopeful this would work with speedfan.

robaal · Post by **robaal** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:44 am

It worked for me - both the CPU fan header and SYS fan header can control 3-pin fans; I didn't check the 3-pin PWR header. I'm using the DS3P, but I don't think it differs from the DS3 in this respect.

Speedfan still reports wrong speeds (ie. 675000) though.

shantaram · Post by **shantaram** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:23 am

Righto thanks for the heads up

alluringreality · Post by **alluringreality** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:15 pm

Yes I got it to work by the first reply with config->advanced->software-controlled. It still took another question to the board before I got the automatic fan speed working right.