Fan problem with Asus GTX 980

topsecret97

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Mar 14, 2016
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So, I'm having a kinda annoying problem witch I've been trying to solve for more than 4 months.
I built a gaming pc not a year ago yet, and 4 months ago this problem started, ONE of the fans just spins completely crazy at 100% only sometimes when gaming, normally gaming on some heavy games like Dying Light, Battlefield 4, but doesn't happen in games like League of Legends.
IT IS NOT a temperature problem, temps are perfectly fine.
It got worse the first time I upgraded to windows 10, went back to 8.1 it kept going, sent the GPU to warranty, zero problems, they said they had it for 2 days in stress test in FurMark, the day before I sent it tested in the same software, fan went completely crazy.
After it came back was more stable, only happening once in a while but nothing like it was before.
Now I just bought an SSD and installed windows 8.1 and thought why not upgrade to 10, here I am again one fan going completely crazy on heavy games.......
I've gone everything, fresh install, tried to control gpu fans with a few programs, they work perfectly fine but when that one fan is spinning like crazy, only the other one is controllable. Both GPU and motherboard bios updated.
I'm getting a little desperate.

Specs: Asus x99-a
Asus GTX 980
Gskills 8GB RAM
Corsair CX850M
i7 5820k 3.3ghz 15MB
CPU cooler master hyper 212 evo
 
Solution
I know you might now like to hear this but you might have a faulty GTX 980. If the performance is fine and nothing is going wrong you shouldn't be too worried.
Any cables in the way?
Did you mess up during the installation?
Did you drop it?
You should take out the case, heatsink and the fans and make sure one of the capacitors is not in the way or something.
There are lots of tutorials on YouTube showing you how to take out the the case, heatsink and the fan.

Chuadda

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Jan 4, 2016
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I know you might now like to hear this but you might have a faulty GTX 980. If the performance is fine and nothing is going wrong you shouldn't be too worried.
Any cables in the way?
Did you mess up during the installation?
Did you drop it?
You should take out the case, heatsink and the fans and make sure one of the capacitors is not in the way or something.
There are lots of tutorials on YouTube showing you how to take out the the case, heatsink and the fan.
 
Solution

topsecret97

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Mar 14, 2016
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1,510


Yes the performance is 100% fine, I don't think there are any cables in the way. I never drooped it. And it has happened in windows 8.1 and 10, with different drivers...