Videocard Fan stuck at 100%. what does it mean?

[SX2012]

I was playing mechwarrior online and the videocard fan kicked into full blast. It sounds very annoying at 100%.

I do not overclock my system in any way.

I tried doing a full power down and the problem persists even during the bootup.

In the Catalyst Control Center the manual fan control is turned off and "enable graphics overdrive" is unchecked. Yet the GPU fan is still going full blast.

I did not have MSI afterburner installed prior to the problem. I installed MSI afterburner just now and its unable to override the current RPM speed problem. The tachometer in Afterburner does register rpm at 3500 which i think is 100% for how loud it is.

I tried updating CCC from 13.3 to 13.4 and this did nothing for the issue.

Is this a hardware failure or a software glitch of some kind?

videocard is a Asus 6870 running in windows 7 64 w/ the new 13.4 drivers

I am thinking either the drivers are somehow glitched or something in the videocard fried.....

 

[Ketchup]

To help answer your question, I suggest finding out what the idle and load temps are on the card. If you currently don't have anything installed to do that, I suggest this:

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

 

[etrigan420]

Try taking manual control of the fan via CCC and turning it down to 20%.

 

[SX2012]

Try taking manual control of the fan via CCC and turning it down to 20%.

It just wont work.......

 

[etrigan420]

It just wont work.......

"He's dead, Jim."

My only other suggestion would be to try an alternate pci-e slot if you have one...

EDIT: Or *maybe* a BIOS over-write if you're up to it. Never done it myself...

 

[SX2012]

"He's dead, Jim."

My only other suggestion would be to try an alternate pci-e slot if you have one...

EDIT: Or *maybe* a BIOS over-write if you're up to it. Never done it myself...

I am starting to think it has a major problem myself. I dont remember this thing at full blast when the computer is turned on. I think the auto was supposed to work even before windows boots.

Perhaps a sensor burned out and there is a fail-safe to just go max RPM?

 

[SX2012]

Did some more research. The GPU fan has 4 pins. 4 pin fans have the power management (pwm) signal. Perhaps something in the fan itself broke... Not too sure though but since the video card works fine otherwise...maybe i should just put my own fan.

 

[jaedaliu]

Maybe go with newer drivers?

I updated to 13.4 yesterday, and in the install process (after drivers "finished" installing and before the mandatory reboot when the drivers actually finish) the fan ran 100%.