EasyTune6 Alarm Won't Stop? Any Idea Why?

[bgarrant]

I think ET6 is working with Cooler Master V8 now that I manually set fan levels. How can I get the Audio to work correctly as no alarms should be sounding? The BUZZER and Audio both are sounding through speakers constantly when selected. BIOS has no alrams active and either does ET6, so I have no idea why buzzer wont stop. Any ideas what is wrong with latest version of EasyTune? See attachment. Buzzer is going off steady with the settings you see.  I am using a X58A-UD3R, i7 950 and CoolerMaster V8.

[Dark Mantis]

Are you using the latest BIOS version as ET6 needs the latest.

[bgarrant]

I am using the latest non-beta version FD for my board.  I am also using latest ET6 version.  Can't figure out why alarm is steady on when I enable it in ET6.  All levels look good.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449#bios

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449#utility

[Dark Mantis]

As you said all the levels look ok to me and if there isn't any alarm in the BIOS either then I really don't know what is causing it. If you boot into safe mode does it still happen?

[Lsdmeasap]

Since you are not using the latest BIOS, do you have an older version of Easytune? 

If not please give me the date of your BIOS version and I'll upload an older version of Easytune for you to test with, that may help since you are on an older BIOS.

[clouser]

I was having the same problem with ET6 sounding an alarm for the CPU fan, even when it was spinning under warning levels.  I upgraded my BIOS from F3 to F6a, now ET6 won't even load... Nothing happens, the process just never starts.

[Dark Mantis]

If you updated your BIOS you might well have to reinstall ET6 afterwards. Make sure that you are using the newest version.

[clouser]

If you updated your BIOS you might well have to reinstall ET6 afterwards. Make sure that you are using the newest version.

I was running the latest version, but reinstall seems to have fixed it.  However, I was still getting the false positive alarms like the OP.  Then I found a fix!  I moved the slider all the way to the left, so that I SHOULD be in an alarm state.  The slider then went blue and the alarm stopped triggering :-)

CPU temp:

Idle temp 35c, set alarm at 65c = WORKS!


Fan speed:

idle speed 900, set alarm at 2000 = FAIL! alarm shows RED always goes off at any speed

idle speed 900, set alarm to 50 = WORKS!  alarm now shows blue and does not go off, even though I should be triggering it.

[ChrisRus]

EasyTune6 suffers from a number of annoying bugs in the alarm tab:

• Use of the fan speed sliders is counter-intuitive to say the least. (that's what started this thread). It takes a bit of mucking around to figure out that the only purpose of the fan slider is to detect a slow fan speed. But the default position of the slider far exceeds the normal speed of say a CPU fan (i.e. the slider's default position is to the right of a normally operating fan RPM value leading the user to believe that the purpose of the slider is to dial in an RPM speed that if exceeded will sound the alarm. But it's exactly the opposite. Not sure what this is good for except to warn that the fan has failed. But you would get that with the temperature alarms. But wait...
• The CPU and system temperature monitors seem to work exactly the opposite of the fan RPM monitors. That is they let the user dial in a temperature threshold that will sound the alarm if exceeded. Or at least that's what you would think. But these seem completely worthless as even if the temperature exceeds the threshold the alarm sound is not actuated.

So bottom line on ET6's fan and temperature monitors is I can't see that they're good for anything at all. I want to set triggers and get an alarm when temperature is exceeded. This is particularly important. But it does not seem to be supported. Was this software tested? The documentation is horrible.

Thanks, Chris

[ChrisRus]

Here are a couple more things:

• Unsigned MSI installer. UAC reports "MFC GUI App" is trying to modify your system settings w/unknown publisher. Sign the binary. Sign the MSI. Fix the manifest.
• The _actual_ process name for ET6 is "GUI.exe". Really? Why isn't it called ET6.exe so I can find it  easily in Task Manager.
• Alarms come in handy on an overclocked system under stress. Too bad ET6 runs at normal process priority and is unable to sample, update the UI, or play alarm sounds when the system is heavily loaded. You can manually bump the process priority in Task Manager once you determine it's actually called GUI.exe but that's just unreasonable.
• Why do I have to deal with UAC every boot? See previous point about fixing the application's manifest.
• What version of ET6 is running? Who knows: The question mark brings up a splash screen with a 2010 copyright and no version number. Task manager indicates the application as "EasyTune6 Build 2011.08.23. Way too hard to find."
• moving the CPU temperature slider has a bug. Move the slider fast and the threshold goes to zero and stays there no matter where you put the slider.

P.S. The temperature alarms just started working in ET6. I've never gotten them to trigger before. Wait, they stopped working again. What is going on with this!

[Dark Mantis]

To be honest I never install any of these free bundled programs from Gigabyte or any other manufacturer as they are usually more trouble than they are worth. They put them in to give perceived added value but you risk using them on your own.

[Lsdmeasap]

No problems here at all with it, ever,  but I only use to change voltages and such in windows, for testing before changing in the BIOS.

ChrisRus, not sure what board you are on, but if it's a P67 or above, you need to be sure to also install the latest Intel Management Engine Interface drivers.