Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Bios update?

[thomson1969]

Hi,

Does anybody knows when there will be a new bios for this motherboard Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming.
The latest one is dated 2019-07-05, an there is nothing about which AGESA its using.

[primeshooter]

cudyyy wrote:
Same here, my PCH fan is always between 2000 (at the first start of my pc) and somewhere idles around 2800 afterwards. While gaming, 3100rpm is pretty normal 😄 As far i can remember, the problem was not since the beginning. The high rpm madness came somwhere early 2020?

My issue isn't the fan speed, it's more I cannot control it. And Asus been useless so far at helping.

[Sinistercr0c]

primeshooter wrote:
I've had this issue for a while. In the bios, it's called a PCH fan, but in Q fan in the bios it's called an M.2 fan but even although it lets you tweak the graph it does nothing to the fan speed ( please try it ). In fan xpert 4 in windows it doesn't recognise or let you adjust any PCH fan only M.2 and it won't recognise it. Result? Fan at 3000 yet temps 30 degrees. No need, but I cannot change it! Please submit a ticket as they don't believe me I think!

@primeshooter - I don't believe the PCH fan header has ever been addressable in BIOS. The M.2 fan is a separate header on the motherboard (see screenshot of the manual below):

[FlufflePuff1337]

Chipset fan turns it self off if you run openrgb software sometimes it restarts again but most of the time it turns off.

[primeshooter]

Sinistercr0c wrote:
@primeshooter - I don't believe the PCH fan header has ever been addressable in BIOS. The M.2 fan is a separate header on the motherboard (see screenshot of the manual below):

I've explained this so many times let me try again. I used to be able to slow the chipset fan to what I wish - in previous bios releases in the bios it was called the M.2 fan * it's right next to the m2 slots) and playing about with the graph in the bios changed it's speed. It's not called the m.2 fan now. It's called the PCH fan in the bios and I cannot affect it's speed, it's running at 3000RPM needlessly as the temps are low, I'm talking like 20 degrees chipset temps etc.

In Fan Xpert 4 (ASUS official software for win 10 which I use), up until the last few bios releases, in that software, it shows the M.2 fan and it had a graph I could play with. Doing this, changed the speed of the chipset fan. How do I know this? Because I could hear it! Now, with the last few bios releases (don't know exactly which one) in fan xpert 4, the M.2 fan says N/A. It's clearly changed something. If I click the fan speeds in this software I see the PCH fan spinning at a stupid 3000RPM and it's not adjustable! This is the issue plain and simple. Please tell me you understand this now? I have attached pictures - a few months ago what I am telling you is that I could adjust that M.2 fan in windows and in the bios to slow it down, now it is uncontrolable. See the N/A here, the the PCH stuck at 2500 (it's usually at 3000).

[schmak]

primeshooter wrote:
You are not getting what I mean. I used to be able to slow the chipset fan to what I wish - in previous bios releases in the bios it was called the M.2 fan * it's right next to the m2 slots) and playing about with the graph in the bios changed it's speed. It's not called the m.2 fan now. It's called the PCH fan in the bios and I cannot affect it's speed, it's running at 3000 needlessly as the temps are low.

There was a custom bios that exposed that setting and the spread spectrum, Asus AFAIK never released a bios with the former exposed. The latter is now standard.

[primeshooter]

schmak wrote:
There was a custom bios that exposed that setting and the spread spectrum, Asus AFAIK never released a bios with the former exposed. The latter is now standard.

I edited my post can you go back a page and look at the screen shots. Also, what do you mean here, not following you>?

[FreakyPriest]

The way it is now in your screenshots is exactly the way how it is supposed to be. It's exactly how ASUS wants it to be. The M.2 Fan shows N/A because you have not connected a fan to the M.2 Fan header.

Maybe it was shown differently in a previous version but we were never supposed to adjust the chipset fan speed. I know it sucks, I hate it just as much as you do.

Apart from all of this. Even at 3000 RPM you should not be able to hear the PCH fan unless your case is open and your head is close to the case. I cannot hear it at all. When my PC is idle I can only hear the pump of my AIO water cooler. When I stop the PCH fan with a finger, I cannot hear a difference. Maybe your fan has a problem?

[schmak]

primeshooter wrote:
I edited my post can you go back a page and look at the screen shots. Also, what do you mean here, not following you>?

I think others explained it, you are mixing up the M.2 fan header with the PCH, the PCH was never controllable. Some folks have put out custom bioses that allow you to control it (the code is in the BIOS, just hidden in the UI). I wouldn't suggest loading a custom bios though. If the fan is loud or you are getting too hot on the PCH you might need to replace it. I know some folks have put on smaller 60/40mm noctua fans there and it helped a ton.

[primeshooter]

schmak wrote:
I think others explained it, you are mixing up the M.2 fan header with the PCH, the PCH was never controllable. Some folks have put out custom bioses that allow you to control it (the code is in the BIOS, just hidden in the UI). I wouldn't suggest loading a custom bios though. If the fan is loud or you are getting too hot on the PCH you might need to replace it. I know some folks have put on smaller 60/40mm noctua fans there and it helped a ton.

No...I know this, but what I am saying is in the software I was able to control the M.2 fan with old bios, now it is N/A and renamed to PCH running at 3000.

Please read this bit carefully - why is it in my bios, I can q fan control the M.2 fan but it does nothing, absolutely nothing to this fan, when in old bios it changed it's speed.

[Sinistercr0c]

primeshooter wrote:
I've explained this so many times let me try again. I used to be able to slow the chipset fan to what I wish - in previous bios releases in the bios it was called the M.2 fan * it's right next to the m2 slots) and playing about with the graph in the bios changed it's speed. It's not called the m.2 fan now. It's called the PCH fan in the bios and I cannot affect it's speed, it's running at 3000RPM needlessly as the temps are low, I'm talking like 20 degrees chipset temps etc.

In Fan Xpert 4 (ASUS official software for win 10 which I use), up until the last few bios releases, in that software, it shows the M.2 fan and it had a graph I could play with. Doing this, changed the speed of the chipset fan. How do I know this? Because I could hear it! Now, with the last few bios releases (don't know exactly which one) in fan xpert 4, the M.2 fan says N/A. It's clearly changed something. If I click the fan speeds in this software I see the PCH fan spinning at a stupid 3000RPM and it's not adjustable! This is the issue plain and simple. Please tell me you understand this now? I have attached pictures - a few months ago what I am telling you is that I could adjust that M.2 fan in windows and in the bios to slow it down, now it is uncontrolable. See the N/A here, the the PCH stuck at 2500 (it's usually at 3000).

Hi primeshooter - I understand you believe you were able to control the PCH fan in earlier BIOS's, and I'm not trying to diss you here, but I genuinely think you're mixing up two different headers on the motherboard.

The M.2 fan header is (and has always been) on the bottom of the motherboard on the right of the W_Pump+ and Cha_Fan2 headers. This is the header referenced both in QFan in BIOS and AI Suite in Windows 10 and it is addressable, i.e controlable by the user.

The PCH fan header is in the middle of the motherboard (underneath the uppermost PCI-E slot) and has the chipset fan connected to it (see picture). This fan is NOT addressable via QFan in BIOS nor AI Suite in Windows 10. You CANNOT control this fan in any way as far as I understand. There are NO BIOS options to control this fan, so how you believe you were controlling it is beyond me. I know you think it was referenced as the M.2 fan in earlier BIOS's and if that is correct, then what was the actual M.2 fan on the bottom of the motherboard called?