HD5770 loud even on idle

[ashrack]

Dear Sir or Madam!

I'm a computer programmer and when I'm programming I need my PC as quiet as possible when idle so I do not see the point that my recently bought GPU "HD5770 GV-R577UD-1GD" has the FAN's lowest speed set to 35% with such low temperatures:


Can I get a new bios update which would set the minimum FAN speed to 10% or even lower? Else I will have to return the card.

btw. I could modify the bios myself using  Radeon BIOS editor but I do not want to lose my warranty for something as trivial as that.

Regards,

Tom

[Dark Mantis]

Hello ashrack and welcome to the forum.
You don't say what firmware your card is running presently so it is hard to give an answer.
If you can reprogram the minumum fan speed in the card's firmware surely if you had a problem with the card you could just revert the programming to the original setting.

[ashrack]

Hello ashrack and welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the greetings.

You don't say what firmware your card is running presently so it is hard to give an answer.

Running the following firmware, does this give you any clue?:

If you can reprogram the minimum fan speed in the card's firmware surely if you had a problem with the card you could just revert the programming to the original setting.

If / when I revert the GPU's bios to the original one, are there no hooks in place which would tell the Gigabytes's people that the bios had been tempered with?

[Dark Mantis]

Yes where it says BIOS version thaty is the firmware for the card. I don't know if it is the latest but if it isn't try updating it.

If / when I revert the GPU's bios to the original one, are there no hooks in place which would tell the Gigabytes's people that the bios had been tempered with?

I really don't know but I can't see any reason for them even looking to see.

[ashrack]

Yes where it says BIOS version thaty is the firmware for the card. I don't know if it is the latest but if it isn't try updating it.

where do I go about updating it? Could you give me a link or something?

I really don't know but I can't see any reason for them even looking to see.

I also don't see any logical reason but you never know

[Dark Mantis]

The link for your BIOS/firmware for your card is here:

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3283&dl=1#bios

The only thing is as far as I can tell the only one there is actually older than the one you are running

[bytheway_r]

There is an easier option ( than modifying bios ). I've used it myself recently and it works like a charm.

You can download Rivatuner and modify the fan speed using it. Normally, even with this program, you'd have to use the fixed speed option to go below factory settings but there's a nice guide here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1345181

No idea if it works with HD5770 but I don't see why not. Myself I went with the "Look-up table control mode" and modified most of the entries. Had to save the profile and activate "apply at Windows start up" to make it work properly. That way I got my card ( Powercolor HD4870 PCS+ ) from 39% in idle to inaudible 25% ( lowest value Rivatuner offered ).

[ashrack]

The link for your BIOS/firmware for your card is here:

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3283&dl=1#bios

The only thing is as far as I can tell the only one there is actually older than the one you are running

that is really interesting:)
I launched RBE on that bios and the settings are all the same.
Have just modified my bios to this:

just got to flash it now

[ashrack]

There is an easier option ( than modifying bios ). I've used it myself recently and it works like a charm.

You can download Rivatuner and modify the fan speed using it. Normally, even with this program, you'd have to use the fixed speed option to go below factory settings but there's a nice guide here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1345181

No idea if it works with HD5770 but I don't see why not. Myself I went with the "Look-up table control mode" and modified most of the entries. Had to save the profile and activate "apply at Windows start up" to make it work properly. That way I got my card ( Powercolor HD4870 PCS+ ) from 39% in idle to inaudible 25% ( lowest value Rivatuner offered ).

RivaTuner doesn't officially support 5xxx series. Unofficially it is possible with a hack. But still at 25% the fan is still too loud.

[Dark Mantis]

The link for your BIOS/firmware for your card is here:

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3283&dl=1#bios

The only thing is as far as I can tell the only one there is actually older than the one you are running

that is really interesting:)
I launched RBE on that bios and the settings are all the same.
Have just modified my bios to this:

just got to flash it now

Looks good to me. I think I would have ramped up to 100% slightly sooner but that is a matter of conjecture. Should do the job though.

[ashrack]

Looks good to me. I think I would have ramped up to 100% slightly sooner but that is a matter of conjecture. Should do the job though.

I too would ramp up to 100% sooner, but I guess if Gigabyte's deemed it safe, than who am I to complain

[Dark Mantis]

Yes fair comment, I guess I am just being safety consious.

[ashrack]

it will not update. It throws the following error:

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'atiflash -i' gives: Adapter not found
'atiflash -p 0 5770m.bin' gives: Adapter Error 0FL01
Running it from a clean dos 7.1 of USB.

[Dark Mantis]

I am not sure if it will be of any help to you ashrack but there is a tutorial here: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2439.0.html

[ashrack]

it will not update. It throws the following error:

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'atiflash -i' gives: Adapter not found
'atiflash -p 0 5770m.bin' gives: Adapter Error 0FL01
Running it from a clean dos 7.1 of USB.

for some reason I had downloaded  an older version of ATIFLASH. Have flashed with success now with the latest ATIFLASH.
But it did me no good, since the Ati driver overrides the settings when it loads the GPU driver.

Any workaround there?