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January 18th, 2023 10:00
Dell T320 enable Fan2
I would like to add a 2nd fan using the Fan 2 header. I plugged in a 4-pin fan and it operates at full blast (all the pins are correct).
How do I enable the sensor reading on Fan2?
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DELL-Shine K
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January 18th, 2023 20:00
Are you connecting Internal or External cooling FAN. You can refer below link for details
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-t320/t320ownersmanual/cooling-fans?guid=guid-7e3f411b-3e3d-4ca6-a548-1950243a1f58&lang=en-us
Are you using a supported FAN from Dell. Can you share the part number of the FAN and cable used?
nguoidien
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January 19th, 2023 00:00
I used the 4-pin internal fan from another t320, and put a 5-pin connector on it (one pin is blank). I measured the pins on the motherboard to see which are 12v and gnd. The remaining 2 pins must be tach and speed control, right?
DELL-Shine K
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January 19th, 2023 03:00
Connecting Internal FAN on external fan slot is not supported. As it is not supported we can guarantee that it will work.
nguoidien
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January 20th, 2023 13:00
I'm going to buy an external Dell T320 fan and see it that will work. Meanwhile, is there a command to enable it using ipmitool or in the BIOS?
DELL-Marco B
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January 23rd, 2023 00:00
Hello,
I don't have a list of ipmitool command to enable external FAN, and I don't think you can do it from BIOS
nguoidien
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January 24th, 2023 10:00
Dell sells the external fan as an option. There must be a way to enable it, yes? However, no one at Dell knows how.