GeForce1060 6GB

[janE]

My GeForce card is speeding up the fan in Windows even if I don't do anything in my computer.

I tried using the card in another Windows PC, and it has the same symptom.

If I use Linux, the problem isn't there.

So I tried to see what is changing when the fan speeds up, and the only remarkable thing I could find was the fan's tachometer (see attached file).

Whenever it shows that there is a speed of zero, the fan of the GeForce speeds up to maximum.

The weird part:

1. I cannot see a connection to anything else, like the temperature of the GPU...
2. If it shows a fan speed, sometimes both fans are not moving at all.
3. It's two fans, but it only shows one speed.

Does anybody know how to solve the problem or what to try?

Thanks a lot in advance

HardwareMonitoring.hml

[Needfuldoer]

Are you running the same version of drivers on both Windows machines, and are they up to date?

[janE]

I am not sure with the driver in the other machine I tried this years ago...

The problem exists since a couple of years allready and I tried at some moment to solve it, could not find it and gave up, as I was using headphones anyway most times.

Now I needed to move my computer to a area where my wife hears the noise and I should solve the problem.

 

Th drivers where always updated when there was a new one from nvida. 

[Vishera]

You can try changing the fan curve in  MSI Afterburner.

[janE]

I did, but it doesn't change 

[Godlygamer23]

45 minutes ago, janE said:

I did, but it doesn't change 

Are you changing the curve itself, or the explicit fan speed? What 1060 6GB are you specifically using? 

 

Looking at the specific data you linked in your OP, the RPM value fluctuates, even dipping down to 655 RPM, and then jumping up to 2K RPM, even though the fan speed percentage stays at 42%, which makes me think it's some kind of software bug, either a driver problem, MSI Afterburner issue, or even a firmware bug on the card itself.

Edited June 30, 2024 by Godlygamer23
Additional information added.

[Forfaxify]

I have an Asus 1060 3gb dual and that card started to randomly spin up one of the fans and I have tamed it with fan control. I don't know why it started doing it but that worked for me.

[janE]

Sorry I didn`t answer so long. I was traveling and could not check things at home.

@Forfaxify: how did you do that? I tried in MSI, but i am not sure how you did this with out risking overheating.

 

@Godlygamer23: I changed the curve in the settings of MSI. The Brand is kfa2.

Thinking about my problem i conclude, that it could be, that the speedsensor of the fan is read wrong sometimes and the speeding up of the fan is a reaction to save the cpu. So liek the thought of the developer "If we dont know the speed of the fan or the temperature, than we just speed the fan up to make shure nothing burns."
Is this posible? And does anybody know if firmware from Nvida work like this?