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Hi all,

 

I started to notice that an odd sound was coming from my GTX 770. I noticed that the fan towards the rear was spinning a lot slower than the fan in front of it and it was making a noise similar to a train running over tracks. Sometimes the fan would completely stop leaving only the front one cooling the GPU. It hasn't caused any issues purely because I haven't been using my PC for intensive tasks lately, but in the summer I plan to. I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do to fix this problem.

 

Thanks! 

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Hi all,

I started to notice that an odd sound was coming from my GTX 770. I noticed that the fan towards the rear was spinning a lot slower than the fan in front of it and it was making a noise similar to a train running over tracks. Sometimes the fan would completely stop leaving only the front one cooling the GPU. It hasn't caused any issues purely because I haven't been using my PC for intensive tasks lately, but in the summer I plan to. I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do to fix this problem.

Thanks!

rma if you can if not tie a 120mm case fan to it.
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Hi all,

 

I started to notice that an odd sound was coming from my GTX 770. I noticed that the fan towards the rear was spinning a lot slower than the fan in front of it and it was making a noise similar to a train running over tracks. Sometimes the fan would completely stop leaving only the front one cooling the GPU. It hasn't caused any issues purely because I haven't been using my PC for intensive tasks lately, but in the summer I plan to. I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do to fix this problem.

 

Thanks! 

The fan may be broken. Can you replace it?

 
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rma if you can if not tie a 120mm case fan to it.

 

It's not an issue yet since I'm barely using it so it is being kept cool enough for now even with just one fan. I think I might try and contact MSI support soon

The fan may be broken. Can you replace it?

I think the fan might be broken but I'm not sure how to replace, if it is even possible. That would make it a lot easier. 

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It's not an issue yet since I'm barely using it so it is being kept cool enough for now even with just one fan. I think I might try and contact MSI support soon

I think the fan might be broken but I'm not sure how to replace, if it is even possible. That would make it a lot easier. 

I found the fans that are used on the card on ebay: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/95mm-Video-Card-Cooling-GPU-Dual-Fan-4-MSI-GTX680-GTX770-PLD10015B12H-0-55A-3012-/111655442654?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19ff2ed8de

 

This page shows the card dismantled and the fan model number can be seen: http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1054&page=2

 
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I don't really know what is wrong with it now though. I booted into windows and I checked MSI afterburner, the fan power is at 33%, but the fan tachometer says the fans are ramping up and down very aggressively, I can also hear it. Sounds like a plane on take off. The fan tachometer graph looks like a heartbeat. I'm a bit clueless now. 

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I don't really know what is wrong with it now though. I booted into windows and I checked MSI afterburner, the fan power is at 33%, but the fan tachometer says the fans are ramping up and down very aggressively, I can also hear it. Sounds like a plane on take off. The fan tachometer graph looks like a heartbeat. I'm a bit clueless now. 

Are you running a custom fan profile? Can you put a screen cap of the fan speed window.

 
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I just recently bought used 770 Lightning... And I have the exact same problem...
1 fan rattles and spins slowly or stops completly, the other one spins kinda fast, no rattle thou...

After I installed drivers(no matter the version) the card goes insane... rpms from 900-2400 in seconds...

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I just recently bought used 770 Lightning... And I have the exact same problem...

1 fan rattles and spins slowly or stops completly, the other one spins kinda fast, no rattle thou...

After I installed drivers(no matter the version) the card goes insane... rpms from 900-2400 in seconds...

Hi there,

Since I posted this thread I managed to source some replacement fans off eBay. The model number is: PLD10015B12H.

I ended up opening the card and replacing the fans, which was fairly intuitive but I had to slightly bend a cable clip to remove the fan cable. The problem came when I started to remove the compound off the GPU itself and I feel like I may have damaged it.

So this meant that the GPU worked for a while with the fans running smoothly. Though eventually the card completely failed, due to the GPU itself.

What I'm saying is the fans are the issue, if you can replace those then you'll have the problem solved. Just be very very careful when dealing with the GPU chip itself. I ended up buying a GTX 970 in the end.

So yes it's the fans themselves not software.

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What bothers me the most is this thing... (I mean the fan tachometer)

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What bothers me the most is this thing... (I mean the fan tachometer)

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Mine looked exactly like that. Even though the fan speed setting was fixed. I believe the fans are faulty and replacing them fixes that issue. When I replaced them they behaved normally. Though I'm running a hackintosh I noticed in Windows it did that up and down speed. But in Mac it just ran at a constant slow speed which I thought was odd.
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The thing is... Tachometer loses its mind when drivers are installed... Without drivers its kinda loud, but fans dont jump around...
FML...

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The thing is... Tachometer loses its mind when drivers are installed... Without drivers its kinda loud, but fans dont jump around...

FML...

I noticed the same when i installed a new driver, as soon as I rebooted it started doing this. I'm clueless as to why. Seems like you had the same problem as me.

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I noticed the same when i installed a new driver, as soon as I rebooted it started doing this. I'm clueless as to why. Seems like you had the same problem as me.

I tried all of these driver versions... 306.97 / 320.49 / 331.65 / 355.82

After every install tachometer loses it...

 

I could fix the rattle, but damn that tachometer...

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Hi all,

 

I started to notice that an odd sound was coming from my GTX 770. I noticed that the fan towards the rear was spinning a lot slower than the fan in front of it and it was making a noise similar to a train running over tracks. Sometimes the fan would completely stop leaving only the front one cooling the GPU. It hasn't caused any issues purely because I haven't been using my PC for intensive tasks lately, but in the summer I plan to. I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do to fix this problem.

 

Thanks! 

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