[SOLVED] GTX590 Overheat and fan won't ramp up

[NightHawkRMX]

Hello. Today I was playing some Half Life 2 on my computer. I was monitoring temps with MSI afterburner overlay. GPU1 was un the 70s and GPU2 went to about 85c, which is normal since I have owned this card. All of a sudden I look up and my GPU2 is at 100c and the framerate had dropped significantly. I opened hwinfo64 and the fan speed for the card was at ~1000-1100rpm, which is about 1/3 what the fan speed used to be while gaming.

I closed the game and opened MSI afterburner. The fan speed was set to auto. I tried adjusting fan speed and If I drag the slider to 100% the slider just resets to 0 after I try applying settings. The fan speed does not change.

I know the fan speed control in MSI afterburner used to work, but will not now.

I tried uninstalling MSI afterburner but still the fan speed is stuck to 1000-1100RPM in games causing the card to overheat and throttle.

What is causing this?

GPU: GTX590 with SLI enabled.

 

[Koekieezz]

Hello. Today I was playing some Half Life 2 on my computer. I was monitoring temps with MSI afterburner overlay. GPU1 was un the 70s and GPU2 went to about 85c, which is normal since I have owned this card. All of a sudden I look up and my GPU2 is at 100c and the framerate had dropped significantly. I opened hwinfo64 and the fan speed for the card was at ~1000-1100rpm, which is about 1/3 what the fan speed used to be while gaming.

I closed the game and opened MSI afterburner. The fan speed was set to auto. I tried adjusting fan speed and If I drag the slider to 100% the slider just resets to 0 after I try applying settings. The fan speed does not change.

I know the fan speed control in MSI afterburner used to work, but will not now.

I tried uninstalling MSI afterburner but still the fan speed is stuck to 1000-1100RPM in games causing the card to overheat and throttle.

What is causing this?

GPU: GTX590 with SLI enabled.

Maybe you want to try reflashing the gpu bioses?

 

[NightHawkRMX]

How does that work for a 590. Are there 2 bioses to flash?

 

[Koekieezz]

How does that work for a 590. Are there 2 bioses to flash?

could you post a gpuz screenshot of your gpu?

 

[dotas1]

could you post a gpuz screenshot of your gpu?

Is there a reason you are constantly asking for a GPUz screenshot? I am not trying to be offensive, I am honestly curious.

Hello. Today I was playing some Half Life 2 on my computer. I was monitoring temps with MSI afterburner overlay. GPU1 was un the 70s and GPU2 went to about 85c, which is normal since I have owned this card. All of a sudden I look up and my GPU2 is at 100c and the framerate had dropped significantly. I opened hwinfo64 and the fan speed for the card was at ~1000-1100rpm, which is about 1/3 what the fan speed used to be while gaming.

I closed the game and opened MSI afterburner. The fan speed was set to auto. I tried adjusting fan speed and If I drag the slider to 100% the slider just resets to 0 after I try applying settings. The fan speed does not change.

I know the fan speed control in MSI afterburner used to work, but will not now.

I tried uninstalling MSI afterburner but still the fan speed is stuck to 1000-1100RPM in games causing the card to overheat and throttle.

What is causing this?

GPU: GTX590 with SLI enabled.

I would suspect fan(s)/fan header going bad since the card is old enough to manifest such problem.

I would also try reseating the card in the PCIe slot. While the card is removed, clean the slot of dust and the gpu contacts with a cotton swab with some isopropyl alcohol.
Of course you need to wait a bit so the alcohol vapors but you are a far more knowledgeable contributor than I am and you already know that!

 

[Koekieezz]

Is there a reason you are constantly asking for a GPUz screenshot? I am not trying to be offensive, I am honestly curious.

Finding the correct gpu bios ofc

 

[NightHawkRMX]

https://ibb.co/4S7JB1k

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Its a gtx590 classified. I assume the card has 2 bioses that I should both flash with the same file?

 

[spentshells]

While it was fully supported by those drivers you've chosen, which others have you tried?

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Currently on V 391.35 which I believe is the last to support Fermi. I also tried the launch drivers for that card, v267.91, which didn't change anything.

I might try the card in another computer.

 

[Koekieezz]

Its a gtx590 classified. I assume the card has 2 bioses that I should both flash with the same file?

Yeah, it think you could do that, but it should be better to test it on another pc when you're able to reach another pc

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Oh, just an update. I took apart the card, cleaned the PCB, replaced the thermal pads with all new arctic ones, and replaced the thermal paste with arctic mx2.

Somehow, this solved the issue of the fan speed being locked.

 

[dotas1]

So cleaning and reseating the GPU helped. Glad to know that.

Messing with vBIOS is not generally recommended as it won't just become corrupt if you never touched it.