MSI P67A-GD65 B3 Fan Speed Control help

zYx · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:40

Hello,

I built a new system today, the above MSI P67A-GD65 with the i7-2600K.
To be honest I just swapped motherboard, cpu and ram on windows 7 x64 machine. It's all good expect the fans' speed control.
It doesn't seem to work. Stock heatsink with PWM fan on CPU connector is running at full speed at all times. Changing cpu or sysfan speeds in BIOS or Control Center in Windows doesn't seem to do anything.

..or am I missing something here?

Any help will be much appreciated
:rolleyes:

Lemin · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:47

I had similar problem, with mates pc. Just gave up and got a cheap fan controller. Solved.

edit, have you checked the temps in bios...

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-chec...ough-BIOS-or-software-on-all-operating-system

Baldbloke · 2 Apr 2011 at 12:37

I just swapped to the MSI mobo as well. I've been so busy reinstalling software for the last couple of days I haven't got round to fiddling with the bios. Just loaded defaults for now. My fans are running full speed but I can control them from windows using the MSI control centre II software supplied on the disc. Nice and quiet on 50% speed now. Just need to set them each time I enter windows. When I've done loading software I'll have a look in the bios to see what fan/power options there are.

zYx · 3 Apr 2011 at 15:13

What I discovered was that I have to set 50% to sysfan1 and sysfan2 in BIOS, but in Control Center it still shows 100% however the fans are running at 50% ~600rpm. I can open the list and select 100% to actually activate 100% speed. What's up with that?

Baldbloke · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:27

I got round to fiddling with the bios. Found fan settings. Set my two system fans to 50%. Set my cpu target at 50C and cpu fan minimum to 50%. It boots up quiet and stays quiet unless I stress the cpu in which case my cpu fan speed increases as desired.

I checked in control centerII and it shows all three fans at 50%.

kmufc77 · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:36

Do any of you GD65 owners have a prob with the mouse displaying in the EFI bios?

Im using a Razer Mamba

Sorry to Hijack OP.

Baldbloke · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:56

I noticed my mouse doesn't work in that EFI. Didn't give it a second thought though because the keyboard gave me sufficient navigation. It did work when I had an asus board. I'm using Microsoft 6000 wireless usb keyboard and mouse.

zYx · 3 Apr 2011 at 23:30

I have the logitech mx revolution (wireless) and it works fine in bios, but it's useless imo. Everywhere you go or want to accept/enter you have to double-click and to exit, you have to right click. Quite annoying.
I use keyboard anyway.

zYx · 3 Apr 2011 at 23:32

Baldbloke said:
I got round to fiddling with the bios. Found fan settings. Set my two system fans to 50%. Set my cpu target at 50C and cpu fan minimum to 50%. It boots up quiet and stays quiet unless I stress the cpu in which case my cpu fan speed increases as desired.

I checked in control centerII and it shows all three fans at 50%.

It's probably my OS :/ It's been too many changes.

Baldbloke · 3 Apr 2011 at 23:55

zYx said:
It's probably my OS :/ It's been too many changes.

Maybe. I returned a problematic Asus mobo. I did a clean install for the MSI board. It's been extremely reliable so far. Only been a few days so far but very happy with it.