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Fan control seems to stop when windows turns off displays. #3961

@TrendyWhistle

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@TrendyWhistle

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Hi! Just wanted to check if there are any known issues where fancontrol can stop fans when windows power management turns off the displays. I use fancontrol to control my water pumps and on a few instances many years ago, my pumps stopped running and the loop melted (hard tubing). I turned off display sleep on windows and I haven''t had an issue since, but I'd like to know if I can turn it back on and if there are steps I can take to make sure the fans and pumps don't stop running.

Is there a log.txt file next to FanControl.exe with recent date entries?
Apologies, I have not used windows automatic display shutoff for a long time so I have no logs at the moment.

Relevant hardware specs and setup
AMD 5800XT 48GB DDR4 RAM
RTX 3080 Super
Asus X570-E Motherboard (Using motherboard headers and temperature probe for fancontrol.
Many hard drives connected, pump is connected via MOLEX and controlled with a 4 pin fan header. (fans are controlled with 5 fan headers total, 3x PWM fans, 1x DC controlled group (3 fans) and 1x PWM control for water pump)
Another note, by default the motherboard doesnt shut off the pump even when its set to 0% speed in BIOS.

Potentially conflicting software: Asus's Armoury crate is not installed, Signal RGB is installed for RGB control but it doesn't have any fan control on. HWInfo is installed and running to alert me for high temperature or low pump speeds.

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