MSI GTX760 Fan issue? Please help

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Hi,

I've owned my MSI GTX760 for just over a month and until now all has run smoothly and been silent. However when I turned my PC on this morning the GPU fan is going nuts, and sounds like it's running at full rpm even when I have no games open and it's idling. Even when previously playing games I had never heard it at the volume it is now.
It definitely is the fan which is making the noise as I accidentally stopped it with my hand and the noise disappeared, only to build up again when I let go.
I have not overclocked it and nothing has changed, has anyone had a similar experience to this before?
I am not sure if it is a fault or if there is a simple change I can make, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I would recommend completely uninstalling the current/old graphics display drivers and doing a fresh install. Also ensure that your other drivers are all up to date, particularly your mobo's chipset driver. Third, you can try using software like MSI Afterburner and see if it can control the fan.

If those don't fix the issue, then I'd call or email MSI and request an RMA.

Here's a great program for uninstalling display drivers and making sure there's no left-overs hiding in the system:
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
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I would recommend completely uninstalling the current/old graphics display drivers and doing a fresh install. Also ensure that your other drivers are all up to date, particularly your mobo's chipset driver. Third, you can try using software like MSI Afterburner and see if it can control the fan.

If those don't fix the issue, then I'd call or email MSI and request an RMA.

Here's a great program for uninstalling display drivers and making sure there's no left-overs hiding in the system:
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 
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Sam G2

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Hi Volcano, thanks for the advice.
I will take a look at this when home later.
However I installed the MSI afterburner yesterday and it looked like the fan speed was automatically set to being really low, so something appears to be wrong. Either the software is reading my fan speed incorrectly or my fan has perhaps become much louder?
 
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Which specific model do you have? If it's a non-reference card with two fans, are both fans running too fast or just one?

AB defaults to a pretty conservative fan profile, so if there's a discrepancy between the AB set RPM and the fan's actual RPM, then it's more than likely a hardware issue than driver. Alternatively, the problem could be AB itself - you installed AB yesterday and identified the fan problem at first boot this morning...coincidence? I would try reinstalling AB - if problem persists, uninstall it completely and see if that fixes it.
 
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Sorry, I spotted the fault yesterday and installed the afterburner aftewards to see if I could notice that the fans were running at really high speed. It's the MSI Twin Frozr gtx 760. Also, when I turn on my PC the display does not appear until about 30 seconds after I've turned on my PC. By this time it has already all powered up so when the screen does come it it shows my desktop, seems to be doing funny things.

I've just had a look at it now I've got home, one fan isn't spinning at all while one of them is absolutely on full it appears. It looks to be faulty.
 
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