Very disappointed...

[HippsieGypsie]

Yes, very weird. I never changed the temp trip in BIOS. It was set according to Acer specs. It has also been set to let the OS control power options.

The nearest thinking on this is that 7 & 8 reads the BIOS temp wrong and changes it's mind to run the fan at specs? I'm just not that savvy to know how it all works.

I've looked into updating the BIOS when I upgraded to 7 when it started happening and thought I might have to with 8, but I figured it works, so why fix it? I'm frugal with my money also. Why shell it out?!!

 

[Hopachi]

Yes, very weird. I never changed the temp trip in BIOS. It was set according to Acer specs. It has also been set to let the OS control power options.

The nearest thinking on this is that 7 & 8 reads the BIOS temp wrong and changes it's mind to run the fan at specs? I'm just not that savvy to know how it all works.

I've looked into updating the BIOS when I upgraded to 7 when it started happening and thought I might have to with 8, but I figured it works, so why fix it? I'm frugal with my money also. Why shell it out?!!

Good tip about the money.

That is an Aspire T690 you got there: came pre-installed with XP or Vista.
Official Page (US) here:
Acer | Download

See Desktop, Workstation -> Aspire ->T690

Too bad they don't include any changelog... even checked the files.



I don't think you would have much use of those since you've already updated as much as possible.
Get the latest chipset drivers from Intel and the graphics from either Intel (seems you got this), Nvidia or AMD (ATI).
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx

Since the fan does a few extra spins, we can regard this as an advantage: better cooling.
It might even have been an update from either BIOS (but they don't provide changelog) or it might be the OS that regulates power settings (as you well said) that's just some possibilities.


Give it a try with the Vista x64 drivers and BIOS, ONLY if you still need something to update, otherwise all is good there.
I see the RAM is already maxed-up. :thumb:

They also provide something called Acer ePerformance:

Useful for acer pc's, pretty basic in use, the memory settings seem to be interesting.



I know I had this too back in Vista on my Acer laptop as well, I just didn't used it much.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

It came with Vista. Probably should have bought a more powerful machine. I was very busy work wise at the time, didn't do a whole lot of research, and living up in Mercer, WI, which is what I call 35 miles from somewhere! The only big place offered there to buy was Walmart 35 miles north or south. Best Buy and the like are 60 miles away.

Anywho, I bought it. Lol! It was far better than the old Gateway 2000 with 98SE on it. Hindsight was fixing Vista due to lack of RAM. I was ignorant to that then. Upgraded to 7 first thing and all was well. I finally maxed the RAM during 7. Now 8 works even better. It's been a good machine to me. Never had any hardware problems. All in all I just got plain lucky!

I'm retiring soon. I'll be building a new tower and a custom Harley in a years time to finish out my years. Lol! I'll be reverting back to teenagehood!

And for my super bonus in life, I just met a woman 18 years my younger! We seemed to click and get along great. We'll see how long it lasts. I'm really hoping it does. But the tower and Harley will be a definite!

Sorry if that was long winded. As you may have seen, I love to write!

 

[topgundcp]

Thanks! I found someone selling the same board on eBay that won't POST for $3. It has the fan, so I may buy the dead board to get the fan and whatever else I can use from it. I'm scrounging for a 775 socket heatsink/fan and some more DDR2 RAM. This may be a good way to build a PC for our son's friend and he'll learn quite a bit during the process.

Looking at the picture, I think you have an EVGA 780i SLI. Am I correct ? I built a couple of those in the past so I know You could use any small fan with the tight wrap to attach it, it'll work better than the stock one and with a Q6600, a little tweak with CPU & RAM voltages, you can easily OC it to 3.2 GHZ. FF code is in fact indicated all is well. It's an old board but it is a very good one. If you look at my specs, I am still using a 790SLI PWM Digital, still running flawlessly @4.3 GHZ so I see no reason to upgrade it.

 

[chev65]

That does look like my 780i SLI that I still run with my Q9650 @ 4.05Ghz DDR2 1200Mhz, and my old GTX480 still owning Crysis 3 at high settings, these boards just keep on going and you are correct topgundcp, no reason to replace it unless we go 8 core and GTX680.

It's no wonder PC sales died, these new GPU's can run well enough with any old dual or quad core.

I have an extra one of those little fans laying around, although with good case flow you probably don't need it unless you are overclocking.

 

[topgundcp]

The Fan is for the SPP (North Bridge) and is the controller for the Memory and the PCI Express's and can be quite hot in the summer so it is better to have a good fan for it whether you OC or not.

 

[Hopachi]

It came with Vista. Probably should have bought a more powerful machine. I was very busy work wise at the time, didn't do a whole lot of research, and living up in Mercer, WI, which is what I call 35 miles from somewhere! The only big place offered there to buy was Walmart 35 miles north or south. Best Buy and the like are 60 miles away.

Anywho, I bought it. Lol! It was far better than the old Gateway 2000 with 98SE on it. Hindsight was fixing Vista due to lack of RAM. I was ignorant to that then. Upgraded to 7 first thing and all was well. I finally maxed the RAM during 7. Now 8 works even better. It's been a good machine to me. Never had any hardware problems. All in all I just got plain lucky!

I'm retiring soon. I'll be building a new tower and a custom Harley in a years time to finish out my years. Lol! I'll be reverting back to teenagehood!

And for my super bonus in life, I just met a woman 18 years my younger! We seemed to click and get along great. We'll see how long it lasts. I'm really hoping it does. But the tower and Harley will be a definite!

Sorry if that was long winded. As you may have seen, I love to write!

Alright.
Good luck with all your interesting plans and projects there.

 

[LittleJay]

Did you ever try booting into safe mode 1st after having it unplugged? See if it would work normally, then boot back into windows after. Just a thought. A Guy

Thanks for your reply Bill. No, I never tried booting into safe mode afterward, so I don't know if it would work.

You could send the board to me and I could try to fix it. No charge, just pay shipping...

Thanks for the offer Art, but I have replaced it with an Asus board. However, if you could find a use for it, I could ship it to you and you could have it. It is an Intel D975XBX2 model and I had a Q6700 cpu and DDR2 memory @800Mhz installed on it.