aerocool coolpanel2 produces alarmsound on every boot

[doesi87]

I just got my new rig and installt an aerocool-Panel in it. It can control the speed of 4 fans and has 4 temperature sensors. Here is a link Coolpanel2 (http://www.aerocool.com.tw/peripheral/coolpanel2/coolpanel2.html)
The problem is that evertime I cold-boot the system the panel make the alarm noise it makes when the fan speed is to low or the temperature is critical. This is really enoying. Does somebody of you know how to fix this?

[slytherock]

All your fans must have a rotation reader (the yellow wire) so the aerocool will know that the fans are connected and running well
Or just remove the beeper ;)

[doesi87]

All your fans must have a rotation reader

They do, but I have only two fans connected.

Thought of removing the beeper. But that should be the last possible solution,because it can be useful if the temperatures are getting really high.

[slytherock]

They do, but I have only two fans connected.


Then, you have the reason why ;)

[doesi87]

Man thought I could use up to 4 fans, not have to use 4 fans. Any possibility to cheat the panel instead of installing 2 more fans?

[slytherock]

let see, the most important fans are the CPU and the VGA, try to connect your fans on the connectors associtate to them and see if it stop.

[doesi87]

Thanks for your time and help slytherock. It's great that there are helping people around in this forum.

Wanted to test your suggestion but only had 3 controlled fans lying around. The CPU fan has a 4pin connector (wired, but okay there is a plug on the mobo for it). Will try to get another controlled fan and test it then. Three fans didn't make a change but I didn't thought they would. But I guess I located the beeper and it's soldering points. So the last chance would be to kill it. But I will try the 4-fan thing first. Any more suggestions are more then welcome.

With friendly regards
doesi87

[doesi87]

I got two more controlled fans and added them to the aerocool panel. It gets the rpm's but still beeps on every boot. Any other suggestions or should I just kill the beeper?

[slytherock]

All your temp sensors are installed?

[FrooP]

do you have to add a battery in there, to save temps ore time or stuff, i got a fan panel with batterys and when u remove them or reset it then it makes a beep

[doesi87]

All temperature sensors are installed and working below the alarm temperature. I tested the alarm and the start beep isn't exactly the alarm. It beeps like the alarm but the colour of the display don't switch to red like it does while an alarm. It's some weird stuff.

Looked for it but I found no battery. Don't know how it keeps the data for fan voltage or alarm temps, but if there is a battery then it is not easy to find and chance. Also it is not mentioned in the manual.

Tried to contact the manufacture about this but no response yet. But then its Saturday :)

If nothing helps I will simply kill the beeper and still have the nice very red display if the temperatures get to high.

[Bucko]

You could use a couple of spare plugs and just wire those into the fans and connect to the spare fan monitors, so there are two monitors for each fan.
You'll only need to use pin 1 and pin 3 (the monitor wire and the ground wire), so the spare monitors on it only, well, monitor those fans while the first two still supply the 12v power.

[doesi87]

Wouldn't that just be like adding two more fans? If it is, then I already did it like slytherock suggested. Won't chance the beep if there are 2 or 4 fans.

Please explain your posting if I got it totally wrong.

[Bucko]

sorry, I didn't see that.

[doesi87]

Okay I officially killed the beeper. It was just to freaking annoying. Desoldering it was really simple. Now, if an alarm occurs it simply turns the display red. That's okay for me. Thanks for all your help and interest.