In short, my graphics card fans start-out with a low spin after booting up; then after I start a game they pin and stay at max spin. Regardless of changing settings in Gigabyte's software, exiting the game, letting the computer sit idle; they stay at max until I reboot the OS.
I run OpenHardMareMonitor. It shows the speed that the fans should be spinning, but not what they are actually doing.
Gigabyte's Guru seems to lose control of the graphics card, and becomes useless.
The fans are suppose to stop spinning below a certain thresh-hold, but they are always on now.
So, what did I change previously? I...
Selected - Install Updates and Shutdown.
Disassembled and air-cleaned my PC.
Did some case modding and swapped the CPU heat sink. (All to make the rig quieter. Yes, it's ironic)
Reassembled my PC. (I did change from having two power cables to having one power cable for the graphics card, but that shouldn't change anything)
Booted to Windows and let it finish updating.
Graphics card fans have problem.
Related Specs:
Windows 10 (64)
Most-likely the June 14th update, but I let it update on the 16th.
Gigabyte GTX 980 Xtreme Gaming Edition
GeForce Game Ready Driver Version 368.39
GA-990FXA-UD3 Rev. 3.0
I also tried uninstalling and re-installing the driver. No success, but the fans did stop max-spinning once the drivers were uninstalled. But the problem came back after installing the latest drivers. Can't run it without drivers, so...
My eduma-cated guess is that the latest Windows update caused the problem, and now I must wait for either Microsoft or Nvidia to release an update. (Annoyingly, Gigabyte doesn't update/patch their Guru that often.)
Please let me know if you have any good ideas, or if you are experiencing this problem yourself.
Thanks!
^^Can you explain exactly what you did there?
In the mean time you can just uninstall that update and never hiding it to not install it. Also, since you did some hardware movements in your system, I would reseat the GPU.
If that doesen't work you may try to use MSI Afterburner or Speedfan to see if one of those two softwares are able to override any other control and let you control the fan's speed.
Sure. I previously had two separate cables running from my PSU to the graphics card. When I reassembled it, I only used one cable with the two PCI-E connectors.
I'll first try re-seating it, after I get back home today.
I forgot about System Restore. That will be my next attempt before trying those programs.
However, I thought there wasn't a way to prevent Windows 10 from installing updates.
Thank you for your advice!
To prevent W10 to automagically update you can set your current connection as mobile connection so updates won't be installed in the background. Or, if you want to tinker more with the system, you can do some registry modification to get alerts when updates are available using this guide.
The card requires two 8-pin PCI connectors, how did you manage to get just one cable to power the card up? Before doing anything else set the graphics card with the "two cables" as before and see what happens.
I believe I had this occur as well.
At first it was not doing it but every time I load up my system, my fan curve is forced to 100% and if I try to load in the profile it goes to 0% which is not possible it needs at least 20% speed.
I have an R9 290, uninstalling Trixx and gonna install MSI After burner and see if the setting stick.
It's obviously the driver then. Install msi afterburner and use the custom fan settings from there to override the drivers'. This happened to a lot of people using amd cards when crimson launched. Except that the fan was stuck at 25% speed when it needed to speed up.
actually, it was pretty random what speed it would stay at, some users experienced 20% some 80% etc.
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I was one of the unlucky ones then. Good thing I noticed it before something bad happened
I found the problem!
First, thank y'all for your input. I really appreciate it.
I won't go into all the troubleshooting I did, just the main problem.
My graphics card has a "WindForce" cooler on it, which has three fans. Unfortunately in my already crammed case, the fan on the far end could not spin due to the SATA cables pressing against it. The other two fans automatically attempted to compensate for it by spinning at max. As soon as I released the third fan, all three spun at the speed Gigabyte's Guru was set to.
So that's it. Just bad cable management this time. LOL... (sigh)
