CPU fan not stepping down since windows 10 has been installed

Mark Khan

Mark Khan

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Hi, I wonder if any of you fine people can help me on this one. I am an IT engineer and have built a lot of my own gaming systems in the past but havent really upgraded for about 5 years now but this has got me..

Rig if it helps
i7-5930K 3.50
16gb C.air ram
x99 a motherboard
GTX 1080TI
SSD's doesnt really matter size or brand for this issue
RM 1000 psu
NH-D15 cpu cooler with dual 140m fans

ok so I have been running w7 pro for the past 6 years without any issues.. when i start windows .. fans speed up like normal and when the o/s loads fans step down to a nice quiet speed.. if under load.. ie playing a game.. fans speed up .. normal stuff..

So i decided to now move to win 10 pro.. so bought a new ssd .. installed win. installed all the main drivers i needed for the rig but i noticed that the fans were not stepping down and were at full pelt causing my case to rattle... I have updated every driver .. all windows updates.. spent ages checking ASUS site for bios updates or any updates that i could find. but still the fans are not stepping down.

So i removed the SSD with win 10 on it .. put back the SSD with win 7 on it .. booted up and the fans where back to normal ... running as they should be in windows.

once again i swapped the SSD's, booted up in win 10 and fans are running fast again.. so i know it has to be something in windows 10 doing this.. i have updated the chipset drivers etc.. just cannot get these fans to step down like they do in win 7.

oh and to top it off for some reason my red light on the bottom of the stand of the ASUS PG278Q has gone out.!!! I have tried taking the power lead out of both monitor and machine plus the monitor cable .. fired it back up and still the light at the bottom remainds off.

didnt know if anyone has any ideas on this.

thanks for your time.

Mark
 
Not sure why it would matter what OS if you did not install software to control the fan(s), it is done at the Bios level.

Did you check in the Task Manager what was hogging the CPU causing heat make the fan speed up?
 
i have installed the same software that i had on win 7 and its mainly the AI suite which is on this ver of win too.. and i have been in the bios and played with the Q fan and makes no difference
 
Check your power profile is set to balanced. Is your motherboard the Asus X99-A or something else? There is software available to control the fan from Asus, and I think there are fan profiles that can be set in the UEFI.
 
Asus AI Suite is bloatware and even the Asus staff link on their Rog forum to a tool to remove it.

Use the Bios or Argus Monitor if you prefer software.
 
Steampunk said:
Check your power profile is set to balanced. Is your motherboard the Asus X99-A or something else? There is software available to control the fan from Asus, and I think there are fan profiles that can be set in the UEFI.
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Hi yes i am using the x99 A .. and i am using the Asus AI suite which i have used for years without issues on win 7 so i am guessing it just doesnt work that well with win 10. so i will try Argus monitor and see how that goes.

thanks for the replies guys
 
Mark Khan said:
Hi yes i am using the x99 A .. and i am using the Asus AI suite which i have used for years without issues on win 7 so i am guessing it just doesnt work that well with win 10. so i will try Argus monitor and see how that goes.

thanks for the replies guys
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There have been several releases to fix Windows 10 patches that broke AI Suite (supposedly because of the way Asus programmed it). The version I am using on a Z87 board is 3.00.60 which hasn't broken for the last half year of Microsoft patches. If you installed your older version for Win 7, it would have been broken for latest Windows 10.
 
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