So I inherited a HP Elite desktop, 2010 vintage. It has a strange name Truckee aka Pegatron mobo, X58 chipset. It has 8 GB RAM, Core i7-920 (stock, no oc). It was a client's machine that I was given after I migrated it. I stuck a hard drive in and loaded Windows 10 on it. Now here's the issue. The CPU fan speeds are wonky, and I get a CPU fan failure error sometimes on boot. The fan would speed up to 2500 or 2600 rpm sometimes erratically so put in a new cmos battery, but that didn't work. I put a new CPU fan in it, pwm 4-pin (same as stock) and that didn't help. I checked the CPU temps and they seemed high 55-60C, so I checked CPU usage and it would spike at 20% sometimes due to Windows Defender (I fixed that), but even at 2% the fan runs at 2350 to 2400 rpm. I switched around the rear case fan to get more airflow and got the temps down to 41-44C at idle, but the fan still runs fast 2300-2400 and is quite noisy even with the case closed up.
I know the i7 is a 130w part, but it has a nice tower cooler with the fan inside so I don't think it should be running so fast. Its clean and free of dust. I tried using speedfan to mess with the speeds, but I don't think the motherboard supports it.
Any ideas? Is the motherboard going bad? Do I need to change the fan?
I know the i7 is a 130w part, but it has a nice tower cooler with the fan inside so I don't think it should be running so fast. Its clean and free of dust. I tried using speedfan to mess with the speeds, but I don't think the motherboard supports it.
Any ideas? Is the motherboard going bad? Do I need to change the fan?