I'm a novice builder, and I've got my brand-spanking-new gaming machine up and running really well...almost. Several days ago when I booted up, I got an American Megatrends message ending with "CPU fan error! Press F1 to enter setup." So I hit F1, which took me to my Asus motherboard's BIOS and showed CPU temperature and fan speed readings that looked familiar from over the past week (~31 degrees C and 1100 RPM). Pulling off the side panel I could see that all the fans were spinning away just fine. I let it sit for a while and finished booting, and things seemed okay.
I downloaded RealTemp and SpeedFan to monitor my temperatures and fan speed within Windows. (One thing I noticed right away is that SpeedFan doesn't seem to report my "CPU temperature" correctly; most of the time it's pegged at -60 C and occasionally I see other wacko values like 124 C. The Core 0 - Core 3 temperature readings agree nicely with RealTemp and the BIOS, though.) I also googled around a bit, and saw opinions on this error ranging from "it's nothing, turn the warnings off" to "the CPU is about to melt." I'd like the Tom's community opinion on the subject.
The first time I got the error, I reset the motherboard CMOS memory and the issue went away. I monitored temperatures while gaming a few times and they seemed consistently south of 55 C. However, I just saw the American Megatrends message appear again, same as before. The temperature trends seem to be fine, again - about 50-55 with ~60% CPU load, and then cooling down to under 35 C pretty quickly when the load dropped to a few percent.
After all that, I'm leaning towards the "ignore it" solution. But this build is very new and I want to make sure I clear out any serious bugs. Would I be right to disable the CPU fan alarms? Or are there other optimal alarm settings for my system?
My computer:
■Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
■CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K (stock Intel cooler plugged into CPU_FAN)
■Case: Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel (four fans, plugged into CPU_FAN_OPT, PWR_FAN1, PWR_FAN2, and CHA_FAN2)
■Power: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W
■Graphics: Sapphire Radeon 7950
■RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL 4GB 1600 x2
■Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222AB CD/DVD Burner
■Storage Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB (x2 in RAID1)
■System Drive: Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 Solid State 64GB
In general I'm fantastically happy with this thing...it seems to eat Skyrim for breakfast all while cool air blows out of the case. Silently. I would just like to make sure I'm not about to kill my CPU!
Thanks, everyone!
I downloaded RealTemp and SpeedFan to monitor my temperatures and fan speed within Windows. (One thing I noticed right away is that SpeedFan doesn't seem to report my "CPU temperature" correctly; most of the time it's pegged at -60 C and occasionally I see other wacko values like 124 C. The Core 0 - Core 3 temperature readings agree nicely with RealTemp and the BIOS, though.) I also googled around a bit, and saw opinions on this error ranging from "it's nothing, turn the warnings off" to "the CPU is about to melt." I'd like the Tom's community opinion on the subject.
The first time I got the error, I reset the motherboard CMOS memory and the issue went away. I monitored temperatures while gaming a few times and they seemed consistently south of 55 C. However, I just saw the American Megatrends message appear again, same as before. The temperature trends seem to be fine, again - about 50-55 with ~60% CPU load, and then cooling down to under 35 C pretty quickly when the load dropped to a few percent.
After all that, I'm leaning towards the "ignore it" solution. But this build is very new and I want to make sure I clear out any serious bugs. Would I be right to disable the CPU fan alarms? Or are there other optimal alarm settings for my system?
My computer:
■Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
■CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K (stock Intel cooler plugged into CPU_FAN)
■Case: Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel (four fans, plugged into CPU_FAN_OPT, PWR_FAN1, PWR_FAN2, and CHA_FAN2)
■Power: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700 RS-700-AMBA-D3 700W
■Graphics: Sapphire Radeon 7950
■RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL 4GB 1600 x2
■Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222AB CD/DVD Burner
■Storage Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB (x2 in RAID1)
■System Drive: Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 Solid State 64GB
In general I'm fantastically happy with this thing...it seems to eat Skyrim for breakfast all while cool air blows out of the case. Silently. I would just like to make sure I'm not about to kill my CPU!
Thanks, everyone!