Cooler Master H500m Front Fans Not Showing Up in Bios
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I took legal transfer of my 5900X build antitrust in front Christmas and while overall I was very pleased with my first PCS/Custom PC, one affair did annoy me: the eccentric fans vs cooler fans, in terms of dominant some the Rev and RGB of all set of fans. Beingness original to RGB and AIOs, I had assumed that I could hold all fans through a singular application. How wrong was I! After fighting with iCUE, Amoury Crate, Three-toed sloth Suite and BIOS I was a bit frustrated, let alone that the antithetical applications did not play nice with each early so I eventually had to resort to a clean install of Windows and start from scratch.
I got to a middling steady equilibrium where AC controlled the pillow slip fans (3x 120 Tank Master Sickleflow ARGBs that came with case) and iCUE controlled the three Barbary pirate ML120s that came with the H150i Capellix AIO. But I still found that every indeed often AC would not work and the case fans would revert to the default alternating RGB pattern instead of the static blue-blooded colour I had set to mates the AOI fans. That and AC's unfitness to set custom curves for fans successful Maine decide quite a quickly that the CoolerMaster fans would have to go and be replaced with Corsair fans that I could control via iCUE. The rear exhaust fan was a standard black DC fan, just I plan to substitute that with a SilentWings 3 120 PWM version, once again to provide more control o'er sports fan curve via BIOS. I also felt that the CoolerMaster fans perhaps ran louder than the Barbary pirate fans.
Once I made this decision, I had to decide which Barbary pirate fans to try for. The LL and QL fans certainly offer more RGB, just I felt that consistency of the RGB look was important to me, so I decided to go with ML120 Elites, which also have a higher Rev than tell the LLs. It's worth noting that ML Elites have 8 LEDS, while the ML Pros have 4. I'm glad I spotted that or I would feature had some selfsame odd looking at RGB effects. Originally I had tried to find the triple pack of ML120s on sale, but most retailers uncommitted to me were out of buy in. I then realized that it would beryllium cheaper to buy in three single packs steer from Barbary pirate, and the loss of the ignition node that comes with the triple wouldn't be an make out, as the Commander Core that came with the AOI had three gratis ports for the rising fans.
So fast forward a week or so and the three Corsair ML120 Elites arrived today. And I managed to get them installed between my zoom calls 
And so to parcel some details on how I got on installing. Swell the first thing I did was to plug them at once into the Commander Core and confirm they all worked. Didn't want to carry out the uncastrated process of removing existing fans, etc and then se one of them was broken. Thankfully all worked out of the corner:
Ane minor issue was how the CC was attached to the back of the case with transmission line ties: the lower cable tie-in closed the last port, so had to gashed that. It seems to personify holding in place with just the top cable sleeper but I power replace the last tie with velcro financial support taping formerly I've got most of the cable direction grouped.
And then the process of removing the existent fans was probably the about bring. The front case cover comes off really easily, just thanks to any really good cable direction by PCS, I had to snip very much of the zip ties (around 14) to free the wires. Each CoolerMaster fan had two wires, one time for the ARGB, that connected to a three mode splitter than then connected to the ARGB coping at the tush of the mother board, and another telegraph connected to a tierce way splitter that connected to the Mainframe Prefer cope at the top of the motherboard.
It was at this gunpoint that I discovered that the CoolerMaster fans are not PWM equally I expected but DC! An example of a manufacturer using cheaper versions of their retail fans in their cases, but probably goes many mode to explain the higher resound levels, as there's less control on DC fans vs PWM, based on what I've researched.
The other challenge I faced in removing the fans was undoing all 12 screws attaching them to the case on the inside. Was quite a incommodious with the AIO and GPU in the way, but with the use of a short screwdriver I had scarce plenty room to unwrap the screws. Would have been easier to remove GPU and AIO to have more space, but I was trying not to create work for myself.
Case with fans removed:
Cooler Master H500m Front Fans Not Showing Up in Bios
Source: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/coolermaster-td500-mesh-case-fan-upgrade.87130/
