The trouble for me was that the diagram of the controller board here (and in the boxed instructions) is different from what's actually in my case. The board in my case has the SATA power cable and the 3 pin rgb header the module is supposed to connect to swapped around. It also helps to get your left/right/up/down lined up correctly while comparing what's in your case to the diagram.
Another item: The hub->motherboard ARGB connector is (sometimes?) mis-labeled. I've seen two cases like this, and another person on Reddit had the same issue. The marker that should be on the +5V pin is shown on the GND pin. The wires are in the right spots, but the label is wrong. Thankfully, the ARGB connector is filled in at the "dead" ARGB pin, so just make sure to match the "dead" pin on the female connector with the missing pin on the motherboard's 4-pin male header.
Hey there, I'm building in this case right now and my case fans are not spinning when it's on. I'm assuming I've missed the plug them somewhere but I don't see any remaining cables. Do you know what I could be missing?
@@BGstefchoARS Make sure you've plugged in the SATA power cable attached to the fan/ARGB hub to your power supply. The 4-pin fan connection for hub to motherboard is just for signaling, not power.
This misses an important detail if you want fan speed monitoring and PWM control (at least with a Gigabyte motherboard) - you need to have one of the case's fans plugged into the hub's FAN1 port which then provides data to the hub's fan output cable for the motherboard to read. My 216 shipped without a fan plugged into FAN1 on the hub, so I spent a LONG time troubleshooting the missing PWM control and fanspeed data untiI I tested each port individually until I saw that FAN1 being populated is key.
Finished building with this case yesterday. I had a hard time figuring out where to plug in the cables for all the fans. I think i got them all right, however, the bottom front 160mm fan seems wobbly to me, it doesnt run as smoothly as the top fan, and it seems to stutter and stop occasionally. I think its a bad fan, but i didnt know if it could possibly be a bad cable connection or something.
@@chrisc4487 The hub's fan ports are EXTREMELY loose (well, at least on mine). Literally bumping or moving the case was enough to get the fan connectors to start unmating. I put a small piece of masking tape on each of my fan connectors to keep them connected. One of my front fans was doing exactly what you're describing, and after opening the case up, it was clearly because the fan connector was only making intermittent contact. To check if it's a fan or connectivity issue, try plugging the fan directly into a motherboard fan header and see what happens during boot, before BIOS fan control kicks in (or set your fan speed for that header to 100% in your BIOS) and let it run.
@@chrisc4487 When you say wobbly do you mean it was running slow compared to your other fans? I had connected my 2x160mm fans, rear 140mm fan and two 140mm top exhaust fans and noticed an issue with one of my front fans. I unplugged one of my top fans from the hub and that seemed to fix my issue. Not sure if power limiting but might be something worth considering if you have other fans also connected.
I'm a bit confused. If I connect the already installed fanhub to the motherboard, can I adjust the lighting of the fans? Or do I have to connect every fan on the motherboard separately? Do I need to buy the extra aRGB controller that shows in the video to do that?
@@thanosob3329 If you connect the included fans (and I think up to one more ARGB device to the hub), then the ARGB "out" cable from the fan hub to the motherboard, you'll get ARGB control from your motherboard's ARGB program. It's a normal 3-pin ARGB cable. Any ARGB cable connected to the hub will be controlled by the motherboard. The "trick" is that the 216-1 add-on allows separate (hardware button-only) control of the fan rings from the fan blades. Motherboard software only controls the fan ring+blades together. Just make sure that the fans' ARGB cables haven't accidentally been disconnected from the fan hub, and you'll be good to go. (for the ARGB cables for the front fans, check the manual, but I think they're daisy chained, so there's only one ARGB cable into the fan hub. But I may be misremembering.)
BIG DISCLAIMER IF YOU BUY THIS CASE: Carefully check if your MOBO supports: x2 USB 3.0 headers x1 Type C header x1 JRGB 5V 3 Pin-header I was doing a i9 build with the cheapest z790 mobo which has everything BUT the connectors mentioned above.
@@brassyjazzful the 3-pin headers are argb, the pwm fan headers are indeed 4-pin. I don't think the front fan's rgb works with L connect. 3-pin argb is addressable, and 4-pin rgb headers are not, and they are very not interchangeable
well this must be for an older version, you got one for the new one...the way mine is set up the top slot is for the sata cable, the next one down is a 3 pin conn(i assum is for the 5 volt) and the next one down looks like it goes to a fan header on the motherboard?
Would be helpful if they told what the first 3 cables were for, like individually. Also how do I connect more RGB fans? Connect it to the hub (which ports?) or connect to mobo?
So if I'm adding this to a system that was already functional, I would disconnect the 3 pin female from the hub to motherboard, connect the 3 pin female from the controller in its place, and connect the one from the hub (that I just disconnect from the motherboard) to the 3 pin male coming from the controller, if I understand this correctly? Obviously keeping the 4 pin pwm from the hub connected to the motherboard, and both sata power male ends to the psu, and connect the new USB 3 to the motherboard
The buttons on your front panel, next to the USB C and 3.2, should change the colors. If they don’t light up at all then the 3 pin connectors for the RGB lighting are not connected. Make sure you plugged in one of the 3 pin female RGB connectors to your motherboard. There is also a 3 pin RGB connector that goes from the front panel to the RGB/Fan controller. That needs to be connected properly as well. Also, if you solved your issue, then you should always come back to explain how you did it so you can help others with the same issue.
Helped a friend setup their pc yesterday, they have an older board, G97X sli, they dont have the usb-c port to plug what i think is the usb-c port for the case
Lian Li please do a better job explaining stuff. Not everybody is super experienced. I cannot figure out the connections for the ARGB and USB controller on the side and this video did not help.
My Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 don't have de ARGB 5V 3-pin conector, only a 4 pin (probably 12V) conector, it's possible to use the RGB doing something different, like using an adapter?
where to get a USB 3.0 Header Extension Cable, 19/20 Pin 1 to 2 Y Splitter Extension Adapter that actually works? all coming directly from china so which one do you choose to go for.
As you said, your MB only supports 2 usb 3.0, no matters if you have installed more modules with them. In this case, you need to make a decision: where do you want your usb hub, up side or left side, but not both.
I see the 2 frontal USB 3.0 are merged into a single one which goes connect ed on mobo port next to the 24 pin Port. Right? But then, is there room for connection the usb type-C cave?
Hello, PLEASE HELP When I set the RGB lighting to a custom color, it always reverts to the default RGB settings when I restart the computer. I don't have an ARGB connector on my board and I'm using a lan216-1 panel. I always thought that would be better. Is it possible to save the color settings somehow?
It happens to me similar. I select now that the colors are synchronized with the motherboard. But each off/on the preselected colors (rainbow) return and I have to manually select again to synchronize with the motherboard...
Problem is I cant control fan speed at all when fans are plugged into the hub... Speeds dont show in motherboard bios or 3rd party apps.. Although when plugging directly into the motherboard I can control fan speed... so the hub is 1/2 useful for me. I have MSI B550 Mortar
@@d.thomson4265 make sure you have one of the front fans connected to FAN1 (the input closest to the back) on the fan hub. I had the same issue you did until I plugged a fan into FAN1. My case shipped without one of the included fans plugged into FAN1, which was annoying, and the manual doesn't call this out very explicitly. From brief testing, the speed signal to the motherboard requires a fan in FAN1.
The fan header coming off of the hub has 3 wires, but it adapts out to a 4-pin cable to the header on the motherboard (with one wire missing). The +12V wire is missing from the hub->motherboard connection, but that's OK because you're only using the Ground, Sense, and PWM functionality of the connection. The hub's power comes from a SATA power cable, not the motherboard's +12V fan line.
Looks like it is getting power from the motherboard fan hub and a sata cable. Wonder if it will cross feed power to the motherboard? Hate to burn up a mother board. Oh I see one fan leg has no power to the part that goes to the motherboard fan header. What about the RGB 5volts So will the motherboard very the fan speed through the controller?
So my $450 mobo has only 1 USB header, so its either USB on the top stock included panel, or the Extra purchased header, BUT, thats not the kicker...The accessory panel has a MALE that hardly reaches to the hub area, yet there is no female receiver. the only females are the front fans that are pluged in to the hub male with Y connector. So you cannot pluf the accessory to the hub. THis is a pretty messy and CHEAP connectors. One of the 5v 3 pin was bent and now broke a pin. Really? Lian Li? Wow. Its nice to have these things, but really? such cheap implementation? Now my lower fan only lights up with a dim green color. I have use LianLi cases almost exclusively, and always managed to find a nice case for under $140, 120, around 100. These new cases, are CHEAP and HEAVY. I usually look for aluminum build cases, but today, there were none offered. So I went with this, as so many YT channels recommended. Even the ones showing full build, NO ONE, even this video, while helpful, does NOT cover clearly what is needed, specially when one of these wires is wrong/switched.
@@ofon2000 I can get mine to light up but for the life of me can't figure out how to change the colors. Tried using the controller, doesn't work. Have them plugged into the hub and the hub into the motherboard and that doesn't work either.
@@STONE_COLD_SNEED_AUSTIN I figured it out...as far as the controller...you had to buy it separately right? I was able to get the stuff connected in the RGB vomit mode, but I haven't bothered trying to fix the colors of the front case fans since so much of this RGB software is invasive as heck.
This video had what I needed, the basics for the fan hub. ruclips.net/video/DT1Hus_Bc_M/видео.html Hook the sata power to the ps and the three pin rgb to the mobo. 4 pin headers on my mobo are labled sys fan1-3. Nothing was labled pump fan!
Hi Guys! Do you know where can I buy the argb led controller? I bought the Lancool 216 normal (without rgb) and I wanna by the parts to transform into rgb. @lianli can you help me?
I found them on AMZN a couple of days ago for $13.99. (They also have the optional front filter, if you're interested. Right now they're charging $14.99 for one of those.)
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cool...i'm just as confused after watching the video
Its actually really starightforward
The trouble for me was that the diagram of the controller board here (and in the boxed instructions) is different from what's actually in my case. The board in my case has the SATA power cable and the 3 pin rgb header the module is supposed to connect to swapped around.
It also helps to get your left/right/up/down lined up correctly while comparing what's in your case to the diagram.
@@PHIplaytestingThanks for sharing! I had quite some trouble with correctly plugging it in…
Another item: The hub->motherboard ARGB connector is (sometimes?) mis-labeled. I've seen two cases like this, and another person on Reddit had the same issue. The marker that should be on the +5V pin is shown on the GND pin. The wires are in the right spots, but the label is wrong. Thankfully, the ARGB connector is filled in at the "dead" ARGB pin, so just make sure to match the "dead" pin on the female connector with the missing pin on the motherboard's 4-pin male header.
Hey there, I'm building in this case right now and my case fans are not spinning when it's on. I'm assuming I've missed the plug them somewhere but I don't see any remaining cables. Do you know what I could be missing?
@@BGstefchoARS Make sure you've plugged in the SATA power cable attached to the fan/ARGB hub to your power supply. The 4-pin fan connection for hub to motherboard is just for signaling, not power.
Well delivered. Pictures tells a thousand words.
This misses an important detail if you want fan speed monitoring and PWM control (at least with a Gigabyte motherboard) - you need to have one of the case's fans plugged into the hub's FAN1 port which then provides data to the hub's fan output cable for the motherboard to read.
My 216 shipped without a fan plugged into FAN1 on the hub, so I spent a LONG time troubleshooting the missing PWM control and fanspeed data untiI I tested each port individually until I saw that FAN1 being populated is key.
Finished building with this case yesterday. I had a hard time figuring out where to plug in the cables for all the fans. I think i got them all right, however, the bottom front 160mm fan seems wobbly to me, it doesnt run as smoothly as the top fan, and it seems to stutter and stop occasionally. I think its a bad fan, but i didnt know if it could possibly be a bad cable connection or something.
@@chrisc4487 The hub's fan ports are EXTREMELY loose (well, at least on mine). Literally bumping or moving the case was enough to get the fan connectors to start unmating. I put a small piece of masking tape on each of my fan connectors to keep them connected. One of my front fans was doing exactly what you're describing, and after opening the case up, it was clearly because the fan connector was only making intermittent contact.
To check if it's a fan or connectivity issue, try plugging the fan directly into a motherboard fan header and see what happens during boot, before BIOS fan control kicks in (or set your fan speed for that header to 100% in your BIOS) and let it run.
@@chrisc4487 When you say wobbly do you mean it was running slow compared to your other fans? I had connected my 2x160mm fans, rear 140mm fan and two 140mm top exhaust fans and noticed an issue with one of my front fans. I unplugged one of my top fans from the hub and that seemed to fix my issue. Not sure if power limiting but might be something worth considering if you have other fans also connected.
I'm a bit confused. If I connect the already installed fanhub to the motherboard, can I adjust the lighting of the fans? Or do I have to connect every fan on the motherboard separately? Do I need to buy the extra aRGB controller that shows in the video to do that?
@@thanosob3329 If you connect the included fans (and I think up to one more ARGB device to the hub), then the ARGB "out" cable from the fan hub to the motherboard, you'll get ARGB control from your motherboard's ARGB program. It's a normal 3-pin ARGB cable. Any ARGB cable connected to the hub will be controlled by the motherboard. The "trick" is that the 216-1 add-on allows separate (hardware button-only) control of the fan rings from the fan blades. Motherboard software only controls the fan ring+blades together.
Just make sure that the fans' ARGB cables haven't accidentally been disconnected from the fan hub, and you'll be good to go.
(for the ARGB cables for the front fans, check the manual, but I think they're daisy chained, so there's only one ARGB cable into the fan hub. But I may be misremembering.)
BIG DISCLAIMER IF YOU BUY THIS CASE:
Carefully check if your MOBO supports:
x2 USB 3.0 headers
x1 Type C header
x1 JRGB 5V 3 Pin-header
I was doing a i9 build with the cheapest z790 mobo which has everything BUT the connectors mentioned above.
This must be why my L -Connect 3 software doesn't pick up any of my fans....all of the fan headers on my board are 4 pin.
@@brassyjazzful the 3-pin headers are argb, the pwm fan headers are indeed 4-pin. I don't think the front fan's rgb works with L connect. 3-pin argb is addressable, and 4-pin rgb headers are not, and they are very not interchangeable
jeez that is a ton of different connections
it's only 3 connections. Not rocket Science.
do all three of the power options need to be plugged in to work? or does just give you 3 options to use???
Nice, straight to the point
Thank you so much! Helped alot!!
well this must be for an older version, you got one for the new one...the way mine is set up the top slot is for the sata cable, the next one down is a 3 pin conn(i assum is for the 5 volt) and the next one down looks like it goes to a fan header on the motherboard?
Would be helpful if they told what the first 3 cables were for, like individually. Also how do I connect more RGB fans? Connect it to the hub (which ports?) or connect to mobo?
So if I'm adding this to a system that was already functional, I would disconnect the 3 pin female from the hub to motherboard, connect the 3 pin female from the controller in its place, and connect the one from the hub (that I just disconnect from the motherboard) to the 3 pin male coming from the controller, if I understand this correctly? Obviously keeping the 4 pin pwm from the hub connected to the motherboard, and both sata power male ends to the psu, and connect the new USB 3 to the motherboard
My fans are spinning but the front 2 that have RGB are not lighting up. Any help?
I have the same problem and can't figure this out
The buttons on your front panel, next to the USB C and 3.2, should change the colors. If they don’t light up at all then the 3 pin connectors for the RGB lighting are not connected. Make sure you plugged in one of the 3 pin female RGB connectors to your motherboard. There is also a 3 pin RGB connector that goes from the front panel to the RGB/Fan controller. That needs to be connected properly as well. Also, if you solved your issue, then you should always come back to explain how you did it so you can help others with the same issue.
I dont have a 3pin argb header on my motherboard can I still control the lighting using the additional argb control panel?
Helped a friend setup their pc yesterday, they have an older board, G97X sli, they dont have the usb-c port to plug what i think is the usb-c port for the case
ASUS TUF GAMING B550 PLUS WIFI II has the same issue, found an Amazon adapter for ten bucks will update if it's worth anything
@@Eminem22222222 was it worth getting?
Lian Li please do a better job explaining stuff. Not everybody is super experienced. I cannot figure out the connections for the ARGB and USB controller on the side and this video did not help.
My x870e board only has 4 pin fan connectors...is this why the L Connect 3 software is not picking up my fans?
terrible manual
My Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 don't have de ARGB 5V 3-pin conector, only a 4 pin (probably 12V) conector, it's possible to use the RGB doing something different, like using an adapter?
I have the same issue how did you solve this problem? Could u help please
@ufukkarabulut816 still an issue to me, can't use the ARGB until this day.
@@CaioZer0 thanks
you can buy an argb hub that connects to a usb 2.0 header on the MB, like the razor chroma for example
sucks that you can't have all the front usb hubs connected. Seems like it's one of the other
where to get a USB 3.0 Header Extension Cable, 19/20 Pin 1 to 2 Y Splitter Extension Adapter that actually works? all coming directly from china so which one do you choose to go for.
My one side fan (not the two big ones) is not working. Which cable did I misplace?
4pin
How to sync with led of mainboard ROG and Vga rog strick?
Use Armoury Crate
Where to hook this USB 3.0 cable into motherboard... my bo has only one USB 3.0 slot which connects to primary hub that came with the case !!!
disconnect the primary hub, that worked for me.
As you said, your MB only supports 2 usb 3.0, no matters if you have installed more modules with them.
In this case, you need to make a decision: where do you want your usb hub, up side or left side, but not both.
I think you need a usb 3.0 splitter
I see the 2 frontal USB 3.0 are merged into a single one which goes connect ed on mobo port next to the 24 pin Port. Right?
But then, is there room for connection the usb type-C cave?
Yes the type a connector
Hello, PLEASE HELP
When I set the RGB lighting to a custom color, it always reverts to the default RGB settings when I restart the computer. I don't have an ARGB connector on my board and I'm using a lan216-1 panel. I always thought that would be better. Is it possible to save the color settings somehow?
It happens to me similar. I select now that the colors are synchronized with the motherboard. But each off/on the preselected colors (rainbow) return and I have to manually select again to synchronize with the motherboard...
It doesn't say how much the "optional" ARGB controller panel is. Or warn that sellers ship without this piece.
Fan In1 how are you supposed to connect a 3 pin to a 4pin on the motherboard? it says to connect to 4pin MB fan header
Problem is I cant control fan speed at all when fans are plugged into the hub... Speeds dont show in motherboard bios or 3rd party apps.. Although when plugging directly into the motherboard I can control fan speed... so the hub is 1/2 useful for me. I have MSI B550 Mortar
@@d.thomson4265 make sure you have one of the front fans connected to FAN1 (the input closest to the back) on the fan hub. I had the same issue you did until I plugged a fan into FAN1. My case shipped without one of the included fans plugged into FAN1, which was annoying, and the manual doesn't call this out very explicitly. From brief testing, the speed signal to the motherboard requires a fan in FAN1.
The fan header coming off of the hub has 3 wires, but it adapts out to a 4-pin cable to the header on the motherboard (with one wire missing). The +12V wire is missing from the hub->motherboard connection, but that's OK because you're only using the Ground, Sense, and PWM functionality of the connection. The hub's power comes from a SATA power cable, not the motherboard's +12V fan line.
Top two buttons for argb controller isn’t working
on mine only the left buttons work (no split between inner and outre leds). 99% sure i have things conected correctly
I got the same problem. Did you solve it??
Looks like it is getting power from the motherboard fan hub and a sata cable. Wonder if it will cross feed power to the motherboard? Hate to burn up a mother board. Oh I see one fan leg has no power to the part that goes to the motherboard fan header. What about the RGB 5volts So will the motherboard very the fan speed through the controller?
Thats a pity that there is no way to connect the hub to connect hub that comes with aio :(
So my $450 mobo has only 1 USB header, so its either USB on the top stock included panel, or the Extra purchased header, BUT, thats not the kicker...The accessory panel has a MALE that hardly reaches to the hub area, yet there is no female receiver. the only females are the front fans that are pluged in to the hub male with Y connector.
So you cannot pluf the accessory to the hub. THis is a pretty messy and CHEAP connectors. One of the 5v 3 pin was bent and now broke a pin. Really? Lian Li?
Wow. Its nice to have these things, but really? such cheap implementation? Now my lower fan only lights up with a dim green color. I have use LianLi cases almost exclusively, and always managed to find a nice case for under $140, 120, around 100. These new cases, are CHEAP and HEAVY. I usually look for aluminum build cases, but today, there were none offered. So I went with this, as so many YT channels recommended. Even the ones showing full build, NO ONE, even this video, while helpful, does NOT cover clearly what is needed, specially when one of these wires is wrong/switched.
Rgb from the controller to the rgb fan hub isn't anywhere near long enough 🤷🏻♀️
I contacted Lain li 216 hub to RM850x SATA/PATA cable to gave front&behind fans power
My 160mm fan don't have the light on WTF ? And the noise ... I cant control my fan
Hey bro did u know whats the problem was?
I cannot get the front 160mm fans to light up.
i'm in the same boat
@@ofon2000 I can get mine to light up but for the life of me can't figure out how to change the colors. Tried using the controller, doesn't work. Have them plugged into the hub and the hub into the motherboard and that doesn't work either.
@@STONE_COLD_SNEED_AUSTIN I figured it out...as far as the controller...you had to buy it separately right?
I was able to get the stuff connected in the RGB vomit mode, but I haven't bothered trying to fix the colors of the front case fans since so much of this RGB software is invasive as heck.
@@STONE_COLD_SNEED_AUSTINhey man, how did you make it work? I cant get mine to light up
@@creedaventus8597 connect it correctly
Guys please drop new 011 I can’t wait any longer
now make a video about cable managing the Lancool III RGB
this is the worst video from a company
This video had what I needed, the basics for the fan hub. ruclips.net/video/DT1Hus_Bc_M/видео.html Hook the sata power to the ps and the three pin rgb to the mobo. 4 pin headers on my mobo are labled sys fan1-3. Nothing was labled pump fan!
when lian li evo xl and cost?
This is way too fast and a poor tutorial
what
'promosm'
Day 1 of asking Lian li to give me there strummer plus v2 cable extension
This is a terrible video
this sound brooo
Hi Guys! Do you know where can I buy the argb led controller? I bought the Lancool 216 normal (without rgb) and I wanna by the parts to transform into rgb. @lianli can you help me?
I found them on AMZN a couple of days ago for $13.99. (They also have the optional front filter, if you're interested. Right now they're charging $14.99 for one of those.)
@MikeBob2023 Thanks a lot. I bought the front filter on LianLi official store in Aliexpress a few months ago. It is a very good part for the case.
@@mariorpn You're welcome! 👋🏼