Is it normal for Everest not to show all fans?

[ixelion]

I have 3 chassis fans connected to motherboard headers, and one via 4-pin PSU power. Everest only detects 2 Chassis fans, CPU fan, and PSU Fan, and the GPU fan.

So there is one chassis fan connected to the mobo header that's not detected. I have visually confirmed that all fans are connected and spinning.

So it this just a problem with Everest?

 

[Fayd]

I have 3 chassis fans connected to motherboard headers, and one via 4-pin PSU power. Everest only detects 2 Chassis fans, CPU fan, and PSU Fan, and the GPU fan.

So there is one chassis fan connected to the mobo header that's not detected. I have visually confirmed that all fans are connected and spinning.

So it this just a problem with Everest?

some 3 pin headers on motherboards don't actually report back to to the chipset about their fans. they're strictly power, and that third pin doesnt do anything.

FWIW, why's it matter? my case has 6 120mm fans, and none of them report back to the motherboard. lol.

 

[mpilchfamily]

As you may already know the fan connected dirrectly to the PSU threw the Molex will not be reporting anything. But acording to your image all is in order. All 3 fans connected to the motherboard are being reported. Its even picking up the GPUs fan speed (as a percentage) and PSU fan speed. Though how its picking up the PSU is od unless your PSU has its own connector to allow it to report fan speed. Also 2103 RPMs is quite high for a PSU fan to be running. They generally run allot slower.

One thing to keep in mind is where this information is coming from. This is all reported to a single chio on the motherboard. There are many versions of this chip that support a wide range of peramiters they can report. Everest is designed to look for every possible peramiter weather the motherboard has it or not. So it will report whatever it sees when it looks in the location it thinks there is information at. If nothing is there then it reports whatever it finds.

 

[ixelion]

So I guess it's not unusual for Everest not to see certain fans.

Considering the ways that Everest tries to collect sensor information, would My mobo's own sensor software be more effective? I have a gigabyte board, I'm not even sure if they have any temp/fan monitor software.

 

[mpilchfamily]

You may find the Bios shows the same thing. I know with Speedtemp you do need to go threw and configure it so it properly reports everything. Some items can even have peramiters in the application tweaked so that it can display the information correctly. Everest does do a bit of auto configuring trying to get things right for your motherboard but it may not have got everything right.