Asus Sabertooth 990FX
I don't know if this is a Motherboard or yet another problem with windows 8.1.
I have been struggling with this for Months and i'm getting pretty sick of it.
I have a HAF 912 case with 4 fans
I use, or used to use Thermal Radar to set the fans to run at low RPM when idle and to incrementally ramp up to full speed once the CPU gets to a pre set temperature.
I have been using that for years in Windows 7 and it worked well.
However, Asus decided that because my Sabertooth is a rev-1 they have removed most of the software support for Windows 8, so i downloaded all the Win 8 software for the rev-2 board and it all seems to work.
Or so i thought.
So here in is the problem. At idle i have the fans on very low for a silent PC, as i say i set it to ramp up once the CPU warms up, which it does when i'm gaming ecte....
In windows 8.1 that randomly will not work, it may work perfectly like it did in win 7 for 3 days, then on the forth day when i'm least expecting it it wont, so the fans all stay at idle while gaming without me noticing because i have headphones on and the GPU fans are spinning up, the first i know of it is when my computer freezes because something has overheated, when that happens i look over to see all the case fans barely turning, stuck at idle.
So i reset it and its working again, i get parranoied about it and keep checking it, it will work and work and then its not, again, this time i Alt Return out of the game, open Thermal Radar and see that the temperature indicator is at the top of the graph to indicate the fans should be at 100% but aren't, so i reset the profile there and then and the fans spin up.
Eventually i decided Thermal Radar was the problem, i unistalled it and set the profile in BIOS.
That worked for a week before that then also decided it too would randomly let the computer boil itself.
It knows the temp is going up, and as far as i can tell its setting the fans to ramp up but randomly something else is interfering to stop them from ramping up.
I know Windows 8 itself likes to communicate with a UEFI BIOS, is that the problem? is that yet another reason for me to go back to Windows 7?
I don't know if this is a Motherboard or yet another problem with windows 8.1.
I have been struggling with this for Months and i'm getting pretty sick of it.
I have a HAF 912 case with 4 fans
I use, or used to use Thermal Radar to set the fans to run at low RPM when idle and to incrementally ramp up to full speed once the CPU gets to a pre set temperature.
I have been using that for years in Windows 7 and it worked well.
However, Asus decided that because my Sabertooth is a rev-1 they have removed most of the software support for Windows 8, so i downloaded all the Win 8 software for the rev-2 board and it all seems to work.
Or so i thought.
So here in is the problem. At idle i have the fans on very low for a silent PC, as i say i set it to ramp up once the CPU warms up, which it does when i'm gaming ecte....
In windows 8.1 that randomly will not work, it may work perfectly like it did in win 7 for 3 days, then on the forth day when i'm least expecting it it wont, so the fans all stay at idle while gaming without me noticing because i have headphones on and the GPU fans are spinning up, the first i know of it is when my computer freezes because something has overheated, when that happens i look over to see all the case fans barely turning, stuck at idle.
So i reset it and its working again, i get parranoied about it and keep checking it, it will work and work and then its not, again, this time i Alt Return out of the game, open Thermal Radar and see that the temperature indicator is at the top of the graph to indicate the fans should be at 100% but aren't, so i reset the profile there and then and the fans spin up.
Eventually i decided Thermal Radar was the problem, i unistalled it and set the profile in BIOS.
That worked for a week before that then also decided it too would randomly let the computer boil itself.
It knows the temp is going up, and as far as i can tell its setting the fans to ramp up but randomly something else is interfering to stop them from ramping up.
I know Windows 8 itself likes to communicate with a UEFI BIOS, is that the problem? is that yet another reason for me to go back to Windows 7?