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GTX 680 Fan Speed 100% Only When It's Cold?

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Hey guys, sorry to make my first post a troubleshooting one but I am having a really weird issue with my ASUS GTX 680. The problem has been going on for a over a year but I really want to get it fixed but nothing I have done seems to work. Basically when the weather is warm everything is fine, but when the temperature drops my GPU fan spins up to 100% on startup. Not for a few seconds but permanently. The only way to get get them back down is to run a GPU intensive program until the GPU hits a certain temp at which point it will start operating normally. Again this ONLY happens when my apartment is cold. Always on startup but on VERY cold days when I go to work and leave my heat off I will sometimes come home to the GPU fan at 100% and I will have to run heaven benchmark until it is persuaded into running properly. When the fan is running at 100% MSI afterburner will only show the correct RPM but not the correct fan speed percentage. I have tried disabling fan speed programs, running custom fan curves, and the bios seem to be up to date according to GPU Tweak (80.04.09.00.as01). This is a relatively older system, running an EVGA X58 SLI Mobo, and and i7 930 on a Windows 7 64bit OS. Any ideas what might be causing this strange behavior? Any help would certainly be appreciated.

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Can you change the fan speed with Programs if its running on 100%?

Whats the °C temp the GPU needs to be below, that the fans go to 100%?

Is it only after a cold start or does it occur if the gpu cools below that number from the 2nd question?

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Yeah I've tried fan curves. The problem is the fan curve is ignored until the GPU reaches about 50C. After that the fan spools down and it recognizes, and operates off of, the fan curve. It then operates completely normally at any temperature until the next cold start.

Here is my MSI Afterburner monitor after a boot. Note i'm running Heaven benchmark in the background at highest settings. The GPU temperature starts at 20C. My apartment was at about 62-65F.

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As you can see the fan RPM reading is correct but not the fan speed percentage.

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...your apartment was 62C? Where were you, the innermost sanctum of Hell?

 

That fan curve looks pretty normal to me. 40%, follows the temperate pretty closely and seems to peak at about 52C

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Is it possible, that someone else is using your pc for mining?

Try a whole day without internetconnection (disable your lan [unplug cable] and wlan controller in bios) and keep the graphicscard cold! 

If the problem is solved, change your router password, format and reinstall windows and get a anti virus program.

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...your apartment was 62C? Where were you, the innermost sanctum of Hell?

That fan curve looks pretty normal to me. 40%, follows the temperate pretty closely and seems to peak at about 52C

Lol I meant 62f. You have to ignore the fan speed percentage and look at the fan rpm. There you can see the curve is not normal and the fan rpm is the accurate reading when the 100% fan speed issue occurs.

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Is it possible, that someone else is using your pc for mining?

Try a whole day without internetconnection (disable your lan [unplug cable] and wlan controller in bios) and keep the graphicscard cold!

If the problem is solved, change your router password, format and reinstall windows and get a anti virus program.

I've reformatted twice so I doubt that is the issue.

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I can´t imagine of anything else, than a program that is using your pc for mining.

Maybe you use cds or a usb stick with the "virus" on it?

Or the code is so smart programmed that is changed the bios of your graphicscard?

You can try to flash your gpu, but thats not safe at all.

hmm, maybe you want to delete all stuff on your usb stick and reformat it.

Also do not use the cds you insert in your pc that you´ve burned yourself.

I can´t think of something else than a virus?

Maybe it´s the windows performance index that is benchmarking your pc? Do you have any problem with your hardware?

A chipset that is running crazy, a gpu that is sometimes recognized and sometimes not? Or anything like that.

If something is "new/ plugged in recently" windows benchmarks the whole pc, including your gpu...

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What occurs when you close MSI Afterburner during this time?

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What occurs when you close MSI Afterburner during this time?

 

Nothing changes when I close MSI Afterburner.

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I can´t imagine of anything else, than a program that is using your pc for mining.

Maybe you use cds or a usb stick with the "virus" on it?

Or the code is so smart programmed that is changed the bios of your graphicscard?

You can try to flash your gpu, but thats not safe at all.

hmm, maybe you want to delete all stuff on your usb stick and reformat it.

Also do not use the cds you insert in your pc that you´ve burned yourself.

I can´t think of something else than a virus?

Maybe it´s the windows performance index that is benchmarking your pc? Do you have any problem with your hardware?

A chipset that is running crazy, a gpu that is sometimes recognized and sometimes not? Or anything like that.

If something is "new/ plugged in recently" windows benchmarks the whole pc, including your gpu...

I install Windows from the original Windows disk. Other than this issue I don't have any problems with any of the rest of my hardware. I will look into the Windows benchmarking thing. Thanks for the suggestions.

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I can´t imagine of anything else, than a program that is using your pc for mining.

Maybe you use cds or a usb stick with the "virus" on it?

Or the code is so smart programmed that is changed the bios of your graphicscard?

You can try to flash your gpu, but thats not safe at all.

hmm, maybe you want to delete all stuff on your usb stick and reformat it.

Also do not use the cds you insert in your pc that you´ve burned yourself.

I can´t think of something else than a virus?

Maybe it´s the windows performance index that is benchmarking your pc? Do you have any problem with your hardware?

A chipset that is running crazy, a gpu that is sometimes recognized and sometimes not? Or anything like that.

If something is "new/ plugged in recently" windows benchmarks the whole pc, including your gpu...

 

Thats a bit extreme especially given that it only happens when its cold etc and it eventually starts listening to his curve and why would mining affect his fan speed if the load on his gpu isnt even loaded that much and if it was loaded it would still listen to his curve....yeah... no

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Try running your gpu fan at a fixed rpm, see whether that works.

The fan running at 100% could be a driver issue, try reinstalling graphics drivers. or install beta drivers.

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