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Looks like Gigabyte's software is just bad. After a restart and opening up their software my fans went full speed again. Another restart and everything runs fine. Guess I will just have to use a different program to control those fans..

 

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So I woke up this morning and as I was leaving for work I heard my GPU Fans screaming. I run over to my computer did a quick glance at my pc, so noting unusual running, and shut down my desktop. Anyone know why this might have happened? I Built this PC on Monday 2/18/19 my GPU is a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Windforce OC, it has a fan curve so that the fans don't come on till it reaches 40 C (I haven't really played around with a good fan curve yet) where the fans turn on to about 20%. 100% fan speed is set to 85 C at the moment I believe.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. For all I know this could have been a one off.

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Yep, you've got malware. Most likely from using shady websites and torrent links. Probably using your GPU to mine Ether or Litecoin. Run a windows defender scan and see what it says.

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It's either malware or some funky driver activity. 

My drivers crashed one time and caused my GPU fans to go into jet mode. A PC reset fixed it.

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As said above. Mining virus.

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Interesting, I didn't even think about that. Not sure where I would have got any malware, unless some manufacturers websites (i.e. Gigabyte, MSI, G.Skill, ect...) are infected with it.

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either something keeping it pinned.. or.. maybe just not enough airflow trough the case?

 

i find the straight reach towards GPU mining malware a bit direct.. i'd rather suspect below adequate cooling or a quirk in the drivers.

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5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

either something keeping it pinned.. or.. maybe just not enough airflow trough the case?

 

i find the straight reach towards GPU mining malware a bit direct.. i'd rather suspect below adequate cooling or a quirk in the drivers.

Cooling should be fine. My GPU has 3 fans, My CPU has a rather large Noctua cooler so no heat coming from that, and I have 4 case fans. Nothing was running other than a chrome browser and Discord. My GPU Idles around 40-45 C normally, and when I saw it this morning with the fans pinned it was at 22 C.

 

I don't imagine it is Malware, but I would rather check everything.

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1 minute ago, tlongx18 said:

My CPU has a rather large Noctua cooler so no heat coming from that

that's.. either misplaced wording or a misconception. it's not because the cpu is cool that it isnt outputting heat.. every watt that goes into the cpu, comes out the heatsink.

 

but yes, if temps are low, i'd defenately say firmware/driver glitch, because a mining virus would be cranking the core => cranking the temps along with it.

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1 minute ago, manikyath said:

that's.. either misplaced wording or a misconception. it's not because the cpu is cool that it isnt outputting heat.. every watt that goes into the cpu, comes out the heatsink.

Yea, that was just bad wording. I appreciate the help, hopefully I will get it all figured out once I get home from work.

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Looks like Gigabyte's software is just bad. After a restart and opening up their software my fans went full speed again. Another restart and everything runs fine. Guess I will just have to use a different program to control those fans..

 

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