Zero chance the CPU fan will go to zero as I set the floor at 30% - have others had this fun yet? Running firmware 1.1.1 released Jun 28 2021. Same experience under the base F 1.0.1 fw.
Thinking aloud… one thing I have noticed (and maybe others have too) is there are pauses when using the BIOS. The BIOS just stops responding for a few seconds and queues the keystrokes - you have to wait for it to seemingly wake up and then you can resume the work.
I think these IPMI sensor drop-outs are somehow related - maybe?
Before I updated the BMC firmware to 1.13.0 I was getting lots of messages in the BMC screens about the chipset fan speed. I could see the fan spinning but the rpm’s reported would go from 0-2200 ( as I recall ). And the item would drop off of the list of sensors affter a few seconds.
After the firmware update, no errors. The CPU speed was also sensing 0 sometimes.
When I looked in HWinfo it showed more reasonable readings, off of the same sensors, even before the firmware update.
Sure, the BIOS will boot. But it won’t handle reading the sensors correctly if programmed incorrectly with wrong device addresses or bus contentions. That was the garbage BIOS for the Crosshair VII Hero mobo for a year.
Gotcha - and that’s not something we as users can alter in the settings themselves?
While watching @wendell 's overview of this board, I didn’t notice the pauses when he was working with the BIOS. Perhaps he edited those out or it could be just my board?
No we can’t edit the firmware. Or at least a typical user without the BIOS editing software.
You have control over normal fan temp profiles and speed curves in the BIOS as usual. But if the fan interface in the BIOS can’t connect to the dodgy firmware, you are out of luck.