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CPU Fan always running at top speed

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Topic: CPU Fan always running at top speed
Posted By: mcclausky
Subject: CPU Fan always running at top speed
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:24am
Hi!

I'm having problems with the fan of my CPU. It always cycles at more than 3300 RPM and generates some noise. It doesn't matter if I enter BIOS or boot Windows, it always runs at full speed. This is my system:

- Motherboard: AsRock H81M-VG4
- Processor: Intel Pentium G3250, Socket 1150LGA
- CPU Cooler/Fan: Intel Stock E41998-002 "Delta"
- No case fans or GPU fans
- RAM: 12 GB DDR3
- Internal GPU
- Windows 10
- All latest AsRock .INF drivers have been installed

What I have tried already:
- In BIOS:
   - I set the CPU fan from "standard" to "silent", no difference
   - I updated the BIOS to version 1.5, nothing happens. I have also updated to the beta version 1.7 but I still cannot control the fan speed.
- Installed A-Tuning and performed a test with "FAN-tasting Tuning". The table of results show that at 10% the fan speed is 3384 RPM and so on until 100% with 3402 RPM. All the percentages are similar, always above 3300RPM. Changing the points in the graph and clicking "apply" has no effect at all.
- I installed "SpeedFan" to see if I could change something, but nothing seems to have any effect.

Please, your help will be greatly appreciated.



Replies:
Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2022 at 9:32am
Anyone has any possible solutions please?
Thank you in advance.


Posted By: RLGL
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2022 at 12:38am
What is the cpu temp?

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Asrock Z370 Gaming K6,Intel i7 8700K,
Asrock x570 Taichi



Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2022 at 12:53am
Hi RLGL. The temp of both CPU cores is always between 35 and 40 C.
Thanks.


Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2022 at 11:09pm
Originally posted by mcclausky mcclausky wrote:

Hi RLGL. The temp of both CPU cores is always between 35 and 40 C.
Thanks.


And when the PC is idle the temp of both cores falls all the tiem between 25 and 27 C, no more. Thanks.


Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2022 at 12:07am
What header do you have the fan connected to? Try it on other headers on the board
and see if that will allow you to control the speed.

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Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 7:42am
Originally posted by Xaltar Xaltar wrote:

What header do you have the fan connected to? Try it on other headers on the board
and see if that will allow you to control the speed.


Hi Xaltar. It was initially connected to the CPU_FAN1 (number 21). Then I followed your suggestion and connected it to the CHA_FAN1 (number 15), and I set the Chassis fan in BIOS to "silent" but nothing changes. The Fan is still spinning at more then 3300RPM. A-Tuning reports the same speed.

Here's an image of my motherboard layout and the headers I mention above:
https://paste.pics/IGN5X" rel="nofollow - https://paste.pics/IGN5X

Thank you in advance.


Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2022 at 6:20am
I just bought a new Fan: DeepCool CK-11509:
https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuaircoolers/2021/14443.shtml" rel="nofollow - https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuaircoolers/2021/14443.shtml

Unfortunately, this new fan also operates at maximum noisy speed. In UEFI settings I selected again "Silent" but it has no effect whatsoever. The "A-Tuning" app shows it's rotating almost at 3000RPM all the time. The "Fan-tastic tuning" test shows almost the same values for 10% and 100%. The CPU temp is always 31.

Please, is there anything that can be done here?


Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2022 at 10:33pm
Originally posted by mcclausky mcclausky wrote:

I just bought a new Fan: DeepCool CK-11509:
https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuaircoolers/2021/14443.shtml" rel="nofollow - https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuaircoolers/2021/14443.shtml

Unfortunately, this new fan also operates at maximum noisy speed. In UEFI settings I selected again "Silent" but it has no effect whatsoever. The "A-Tuning" app shows it's rotating almost at 3000RPM all the time. The "Fan-tastic tuning" test shows almost the same values for 10% and 100%. The CPU temp is always 31.

Please, is there anything that can be done here?


Please, can someone confirm that this Motherboard model "AsRock H81M-VG4" just cannot control the CPU Fan speed whatsoever? As I mentioned before, I have tried everything with no success. Is this Motherboard model designed to make the Fan run at top speed all the time?

Thank you.


Posted By: TomTomazack
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2022 at 11:45pm
As far as I can see on the asrock product page for this mb, your board supports CPU Quiet fan. So as long as you have a 4 pin connector on your cooler, you should be good to go. Have you tried resetting cmos or updating the bios? If those things don't work, I'd start looking for a replacement board, it seems like some controller is broken on it in that case.


Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2022 at 4:39am
Originally posted by TomTomazack TomTomazack wrote:

As far as I can see on the asrock product page for this mb, your board supports CPU Quiet fan. So as long as you have a 4 pin connector on your cooler, you should be good to go. Have you tried resetting cmos or updating the bios? If those things don't work, I'd start looking for a replacement board, it seems like some controller is broken on it in that case.


Hi Tom, thanks for your answer and help.

Yes, I have a 4-pin connector on the fan. I also bought a new fan with no success. Yes, I have reset the CMOS and I changed the battery. As I mention on my first post, I updated the BIOS first to version 1.5 and then to beta version 1.7.

I also thought the board could be faulty, but I have 2 PCs with the same identical board and both of them have the same full-speed-fan problem. It's frustrating.


Posted By: bjlockie
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2022 at 12:35pm
You could update to the beta BIOS but there is no changelist in the archive.
It may fix the fan problem or it may brick things.
You do have a recent CPU for that BIOS.
The beta BIOS is from 2018 which is 3 years after the last non beta BIOS. :-)


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ASRock B450M Pro4
16 GB DDR4, 500 watt PS, AMD Ryzen-5 5600, NVidia GTX-1050, 5.70 BIOS


Posted By: mcclausky
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2022 at 11:17pm
Originally posted by bjlockie bjlockie wrote:

You could update to the beta BIOS but there is no changelist in the archive.
It may fix the fan problem or it may brick things.
You do have a recent CPU for that BIOS.
The beta BIOS is from 2018 which is 3 years after the last non beta BIOS. :-)


Hi bjlockie:

Yes, I had already updated to the latest Beta BIOS, as mentioned on my first post. The version is Beta 1.70, date 2018/5/30. I performed this update on both PCs (no success). The processor on both machines is Intel Pentium G3220.

Thank you.


Posted By: bjlockie
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2022 at 2:09am
I would contact ASRock support.

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ASRock B450M Pro4
16 GB DDR4, 500 watt PS, AMD Ryzen-5 5600, NVidia GTX-1050, 5.70 BIOS



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