Phoenix AwardBIOS users - question

[AmberClad]

Got a question for you guys that use AwardBIOS. Is there a feature triggers a motherboard beep if the HSF fan is disconnected or not rotating? Because I had assumed that there is, and that it's enabled by default. Apparently that's not the case, at least with my board's version of Award.

I was using my rig this weekend after finishing working inside my case, and at some point looked into the side window and realized the fan wasn't spinning because I had forgotten to reconnect the wire.

I know for a fact that the motherboard speaker is fine. It screamed bloody murder at me this same weekend when I forgot to plug in the PCIe power (yes, I really am that mindless and forgetful ).

Just to rule out the motherboard not beeping if it decides you omitted the fan on purpose, I did a test, running the system with the fan plugged in, but something wedged into the fan blades. No beeping in that case either.

Took a quick look through the BIOS but didn't find anything related to it, at least from a glance. So, am I the only one with an Award BIOS without this feature? Or is this common nowadays, with CPUs having thermal diodes?

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: AmberClad
Got a question for you guys that use AwardBIOS. Is there a feature triggers a motherboard beep if the HSF fan is disconnected or not rotating? Because I had assumed that there is, and that it's enabled by default. Apparently that's not the case, at least with my board's version of Award.

abit's Award based BIOS does.

 

[JustaGeek]

In my ASUS P5N-E SLI Phoenix-Award BIOS, in the Hardware Monitor section, there is a sub-menu called the "CPU Fan Speed Warning", with the options of [Disabled] [600 RPM] [1200 RPM] [1600 RPM].

 

[AmberClad]

Bah. Methinks someone was cutting some corners. Would it have have killed them to spend a few more cents to buy a version of Award from Phoenix that has fan beeps :roll:...

I've looked in the obvious places, like the panel where you can look at the various temperatures, and the panel where you can customize the fan speed ranges. So if it is there, it's unusually well hidden or in a non-obvious place.

Edit: Just spend the last five minutes looking through all of the BIOS menus and sub-menus, including thoroughly going through both the overclock and the system status monitor menus. The obvious place to put the option would have been right next to the display for "CPU FAN RPM". Definitely not there, unless they've cleverly named it something non-sensical. Being a Taiwanese company, I wouldn't exactly put that past them... but if it were there, you'd think it be enabled by default anyway.