How do you get power to a Fan on a GTX 980 ASUS STRIX GPU?

[Jason Burge]

This is my first PC build. I am definatly no expert and I need some help figuring this out. Everything is working fine except the fan on my GPU isn't running at all. Could it be a power cable issue? I will post pictures of everything.

Here is my card.


Here are the pin sockets to power the fan and the card. I unplugged the cables and moved the wires out the way.


Here is the two cables that I hooked into my GPU. They are two seperate cables. The slot on the right only needs 6 pins and luckily the GPU power cables can can be either 6 pins or 8 pins. But it's still not powering the fan though. I don't know why it wouldn't.


Here is the other end, where I plug into the power supply box thing. The two in the middle are them. The manuel on my power supply says plug into the VGA slots. So that's what I did.



Sorry I cant be of more help. I am major noob at this. If you want any more pictures just ask and I will take them. Thanks for the help.

 

[gamer1357]

The Asus gtx 980 has a 0db fan feature where the fans won't spin. They begin to spin when the card reaches 60 C. It's just a feature to keep it silent. If you want to adjust it you can change the fan curve with MSI afterburner.

If the fans don't turn on after 60 C then you may have a problem.

 

[intikhab]

above both posts are right 0db won't start fans until under heavy load is given to gpu to compute or high temperature is detected by temperature sensors.

 

[Jason Burge]

The Asus gtx 980 has a 0db fan feature where the fans won't spin. They begin to spin when the card reaches 60 C. It's just a feature to keep it silent. If you want to adjust it you can change the fan curve with MSI afterburner.

If the fans don't turn on after 60 C then you may have a problem.

above both posts are right 0db won't start fans until under heavy load is given to gpu to compute or high temperature is detected by temperature sensors.

Do you know of a way to where I can get them at or a little past 60° C or a little higher to get them to check? Like what would you run to get them running?

 

[Jason Burge]

The Asus gtx 980 has a 0db fan feature where the fans won't spin. They begin to spin when the card reaches 60 C. It's just a feature to keep it silent. If you want to adjust it you can change the fan curve with MSI afterburner.

If the fans don't turn on after 60 C then you may have a problem.

What is MSI Afterburner?

 

[intikhab]

try running a benchmark like 3dmark http://www.3dmark.com/ or unigine http://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/

 

[gamer1357]

The Asus gtx 980 has a 0db fan feature where the fans won't spin. They begin to spin when the card reaches 60 C. It's just a feature to keep it silent. If you want to adjust it you can change the fan curve with MSI afterburner.

If the fans don't turn on after 60 C then you may have a problem.

What is MSI Afterburner?

MSI Afterburner is a third party program in which you can overclock you're graphics card, adjust the fan speed, and monitor temperatures among other things.