GA-P67A-UD4-B3 Fan Problem

[Ridnarhtim]

Hi all,

I have a UD4-B3, and am using it with a Corsair H70 CPU cooler. I recently had a bit of strange trouble which ended up with me resetting the bios by pulling the battery. Now the CPU fan runs at full speed and makes a hell of a lot of noise. I've tried the following settings in the bios:

CPU Smart Fan Control: Silent
CPU Smart Fan Mode: Auto

I don't really know the in depth meaning of any of this, but I got the impression that this should keep my fan slow when the CPU temperature is low.

I also used the smart control in EasyTune6, but again, the fan just runs at maximum speed no matter what I do.

I hope you can help me out ... The noise is beginning to drive me insane!

Thanks in advance

Rid.


Edit: I should add that I have never overclocked anything.

[Aussie Allan]

 There's a better then good chance you have a software or driver conflict, you mentioned Easy-tune 6 for starters..... when several things/utility's are trying to get and control a given component usually results in a fail safe parameter to be executed ... Run flat out so nothing gets fried !

  Start by making sure you have a GOOD un-installer like Revo-uninstaller that has the ability to get down deep and delete leftover settings and redundant files and folders.. quite often a setting is changed and forgotten about.......once you find the culprit and fix the issue, you can always reload the apps you want and reconfigure.

  It still could be hardware but with what you said, I'd start with software and drivers...... put Fan Bios settings back to what they were before the problems started

 Aussie Allan

[Ridnarhtim]

Well, I only installed easytune after I couldn't get it to work in the bios. But I'll try using revo to get rid of it again.

Update: Yup, got rid of it, reset the bios to optimized defaults, made no difference whatsoever =(

[Aussie Allan]

 I could be related could you describe the "strange problem" you referred too!

 And update!  Did you also try "system restore" to a date/point before the issues started ?

 Aussie Allan

[Ridnarhtim]

You mean a windows system restore? Might try that.

I don't exactly know what happened before. It wouldn't get past the BIOS, so I took out the battery for a minute, and restarted. I told it to reset the BIOS, and then it seemed to take about 5 minutes to get past the BIOS splash screen. It did that a few times, then magically fixed itself so now it boots up fine, except the cpu fan is on max. It was slightly confusing.

[Dark Mantis]

I would suggest doing an extended CMOS clear to start with and then setting the Smart Fan Control to Normal

Remove the power cable from the mains supply and then press the power switch on the case for a few seconds just to drain any residual energy in the PSU capacitors.

Once done remove the motherboard battery for at least one hour before replacing it.
 
Next plug back into the mains supply and boot.
 
You will now need to enter the BIOS by pressing DEL and load Optimised BIOS Defaults.

Make any other changes to the BIOS settings to suit your self like disabling the floppy drive, disabling the full screen logo and making the HDD the primary boot device and then press F10 to save and exit.

[Ridnarhtim]

Did all that, didn't help at all unfortunately. And the computer is now back to taking about 2-3 minutes to boot instead of about 40 sec like before.

I really don't understand what could be causing this. It's nothing to do with Windows, after all, unless I'm very much mistaken. I'd even be willing to do a clean install if I thought it would help...

[Aussie Allan]

 Couple of things to check,

  You installed in either IDE or AHCI  is this what it's (HDD/SSD)  set too ?

  How old is the Mobo ?

  PSU....how big and age ?

  P67A or Z68  ?

 Was system restore successful and what effect did it have ?.... besides the hardware questions , .... if sys restore was good and the problem persisted, ... could be an RMA.....what do you think DM ?

 Aussie Allan

[Ridnarhtim]

Mobo and CPU (P67A) are both about 2 months old. I did a system restore, and everything seems ok.

I'm beginning to think that it's a problem with the fans/cooler, that it's not responding to signals it's getting from the mobo.

[Aussie Allan]

 Glad it worked out, sys restore can be pretty handy but still leaves you scratching ya noggin as to what caused the problem in the first place!

 Aussie Allan

[Ridnarhtim]

Sorry, I should've been clearer - the system restore went without problems, but didn't fix the issue either.

The BIOS just froze when I entered - I wasn't even changing a setting, it just stopped reacting.

I think I'm going to get my mobo replaced.

[Aussie Allan]

  Ooooo-Kay!.....Probably the answer, but if your going RMA anyway.... the only thing you haven't tried is a re-flash of BIOS, way outside possibility but a corrupt BIOS does and can happen!.....Can't hurt anyway!

 Aussie Allan

[Ridnarhtim]

Okay, how would I go about doing that?

I've never actually messed with a BIOS that much....

[Aussie Allan]

Rid
 Qflash if you can ......@Bios if you think you don't have the skills...........it's only scary the first time, with Dual-Bios on Giga boards, takes the worry out of the operation ... and means you really have to try very hard to kill a board nowadays..... Just read the section on Qflash for your board in the Manual or online.......AA

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

A bit of help with the BIOS update :

I would suggest updating your BIOS to the latest version from the website and make sure that you use the QFlash utility to do so.

The first thing to do is go to the Gigabyte wesite and find the "Support and Downloads" section

(http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx).

Select your motherboard and revision number which can be found printed on the bottom left corner of the motherboard.

Click on the "BIOS" tab. This will take you to the BIOS versions download page.The newest BIOS versions are at the top of the page.

Click on your region under the "Download Here" section heading. A dialogue box will then pop up asking what you want to do with this file.

Click on "save" and note where you are saving it to.

Take a USB pendrive and make sure it is formatted with a FAT32 file system. If the file ends with .exe run it, or if it is a zip file Unzip it, and save the files (usually contains 3 files) that you just expanded to the Boot sector or a folder of your choice on this drive and insert the pendrive into a USB port.

Re-boot.

Press the"End" key as the computer is POSTing and you will be taken into the BIOS flashing utility "Q-Flash".

At the QFlash homescreen disable the Keep DMI Data option before proceeding.

From there just follow the prompts to find your file and DO NOT TURN OFF THE POWER under any circumstances. It will look for the pendrive with the file on it and use that to update the BIOS.

One thing to note is that the pendrive may show up as a floppy or hard disk instead of a USB drive. Once it has completed you can reboot.

We have since found out that the problem with getting some motherboards to "see" the USB drive is a case of using as small a drive as possible, well at least under 2Gb, and even then some will be seen and some won't. Just a matter of luck.






QUICK QFLASH SETUP

You need to use the smallest USB drive you have and after formatting as FAT32 put the BIOS update file on there.
 
In the BIOS you need to make sure that USB Legacy Storage or something similar is enabled and USB Legacy Devices also.
 
Change the boot sequence to find the USB HDD first and disable the floppy drive altogether.

Make sure that you insert the USB pen drive into one of the main USB ports on the motherboard before booting up.

When in QFlash make sure you set it to Disable the Keep DMI Data on the home page.

You will probably find that the drive will appear as a hard disk drive when in QFlash.