Hi, so I bought a Y splitter cable to support my fans and attach it to the headers on my board.
I checked the ampage, both fans add up to 0.5A, each header is rated 1.0A max.
My board is ASUS M5A97 PRO.
I bought the cable so I can control my fans from the chassis headers on my board, working fine.
I decided to play around with my fans and snagged it on my heatsink, I realised my fans weren't working and a nice smoky smell came out, fortunately I shut it down quickly to realise only a bit of plastic on one of my fans wires was melted off, patched it up, fans working fine now. My fault!
Ever since that I cannot control ANY fan regardless, I disabled and enabled Q-Fan, reflashed the BIOS, cleared CMOS, took out all hardware, switched fans, used with and without the Y cable splitter with no luck.
On the AI Suite I cannot "Test" my fans, its greyed out. I set my RPM values in the BIOS, no luck, fans are still running at 100% regardless of what I do.
I tried one fan in the other chassis fan header, no luck. When I snagged my fan the metal wire was touching the heatsink causing a short, so nothing really happened.
I can control my CPU fan from the CPU header which is located right next to the heatsink. The unaffected chassis header is located at the bottom of the motherboard, but I still cannot control fans off it.
Bear in mind I can see my fans in the BIOS, their reported RPMs, everything, just not being able to control them. They are 3-pin fans, and my board undervolts it to achieve a lower RPM, so no PWM is not the issue
Anyone have any idea of what went wrong? My whole board is fine, I can do everything normally, just not being able to control any fans on any CHASSIS header? Surely nothing is fried because the CPU_Header can control fans?
Thanks for any ones input, I must be the most unlucky user on hexus with all the problems I have had
Thanks for every ones help


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