Someone else had a similar issue several years back but with no posted resolution so seeing if anyone else has had this happen and if they found a cure.
Within the last few months I noticed that when I would fire up my machine, I’d hear the fans cranked up. I just figured it was some kind of start up procedure and didn’t pay much attention. Then last week for the heck of it I fired up CPUID and learned that all cores on the CPU were cranked up in the 90c+ range sometimes tapping 100c. CPU usage was nearly nothing. Then like you flipped a switch, it goes down to say 30c.
I did some further experimenting and watched everything from in the BIOS and to shorten it up, here’s what it does: If the machine is at a cold boot (as in first fire up after sitting all night) and the ambient air temperature is on the cool side (say 60-65f), within 30 seconds or so the CPU starts cranking up the temperature into the 90c+ range. after say 15 seconds or so the MB will start throttling the voltage from a start of about 1.3 volts down to about .8v or so, after about the 2 minute mark from cold boot, like you threw a switch, it drops from 90c+ to a correct temperature of say 30c. It makes that temperature transition in about 3 seconds time frame. Then all is good from here on out.
if the ambient temperature is something more normal (say 76f), on a cold boot within about 15-30 seconds the processor gets up to mid 50c and goes down to about 30c.
So the problem only happens in a cooler ambient room and only on first/cold boot.
To this I say WTF!!?
I didn’t notice this problem until I went to the F5 BIOS and the same day up to F6 but this just so happens to be about the same time that the weather was changing into late fall or early winter so I don’t know if the BIOS caused this condition or the weather! I put the machine together last summer so this is the first change of the season so nothing to compare to.
I looked at the flow meter in the bios on Startup and it shows the pump just working away while those upper temps exist.
Gigabyte says I can RMA the board but if this is a BIOS issue that won’t do me any good, it appears there was some kind of hack with their mother boards recently and once you go to F6 there’s no going back because they don’t want anyone using an older BIOS.
Any suggestions from anyone? Anyone have this problem and found the solution? I do have a laser temperature gun/sensor, what do I point it at to get the temperature? System temp is normal through all this. Only CPU temp shows high.
All ears!
Within the last few months I noticed that when I would fire up my machine, I’d hear the fans cranked up. I just figured it was some kind of start up procedure and didn’t pay much attention. Then last week for the heck of it I fired up CPUID and learned that all cores on the CPU were cranked up in the 90c+ range sometimes tapping 100c. CPU usage was nearly nothing. Then like you flipped a switch, it goes down to say 30c.
I did some further experimenting and watched everything from in the BIOS and to shorten it up, here’s what it does: If the machine is at a cold boot (as in first fire up after sitting all night) and the ambient air temperature is on the cool side (say 60-65f), within 30 seconds or so the CPU starts cranking up the temperature into the 90c+ range. after say 15 seconds or so the MB will start throttling the voltage from a start of about 1.3 volts down to about .8v or so, after about the 2 minute mark from cold boot, like you threw a switch, it drops from 90c+ to a correct temperature of say 30c. It makes that temperature transition in about 3 seconds time frame. Then all is good from here on out.
if the ambient temperature is something more normal (say 76f), on a cold boot within about 15-30 seconds the processor gets up to mid 50c and goes down to about 30c.
So the problem only happens in a cooler ambient room and only on first/cold boot.
To this I say WTF!!?
I didn’t notice this problem until I went to the F5 BIOS and the same day up to F6 but this just so happens to be about the same time that the weather was changing into late fall or early winter so I don’t know if the BIOS caused this condition or the weather! I put the machine together last summer so this is the first change of the season so nothing to compare to.
I looked at the flow meter in the bios on Startup and it shows the pump just working away while those upper temps exist.
Gigabyte says I can RMA the board but if this is a BIOS issue that won’t do me any good, it appears there was some kind of hack with their mother boards recently and once you go to F6 there’s no going back because they don’t want anyone using an older BIOS.
Any suggestions from anyone? Anyone have this problem and found the solution? I do have a laser temperature gun/sensor, what do I point it at to get the temperature? System temp is normal through all this. Only CPU temp shows high.
All ears!