My PC fan starts up randomly and is super loud

[blackberry14]

My PC fan starts up randomly and is super loud as if I was running a graphic intensive game (which I am not, nor am I even on the PC when it does this). I have a brand new Dell XPS 8930 i7-8086k processor with 64gb ram, 2tb hard drive, 1tb solid state drive, nvidia gtx 1080 with 8gb graphics. When the fan starts up, I tried ending as many things as possible in task manager without success, also changing power settings to less than 50% processor use did not affect it. The only way to stop the fan noise was to reboot. How do I fix this?

 

[ARAN_108]

It could be your PC, Case or GPU fan. you should narrow it down to which one is making the noise.

 

[blackberry14]

It could be your PC, Case or GPU fan. you should narrow it down to which one is making the noise.

It's the GPU fan

 

[ARAN_108]

Usually the GPU fan turns On and then turn Of during POST, this is to check whether the fan is working so that it can report back if it's not responding.

A motherboard bios update should fix this issue.

 

[blackberry14]

I did a BIOS update but the fan still goes off. The BIOS update was for enhancements for i9-8950, i7-8850, etc.

 

[ARAN_108]

I did a BIOS update but the fan still goes off. The BIOS update was for enhancements for i9-8950, i7-8850, etc.

Does the fan speed stay that way or does it drop back to normal?

 

[blackberry14]

I did a BIOS update but the fan still goes off. The BIOS update was for enhancements for i9-8950, i7-8850, etc.

Does the fan speed stay that way or does it drop back to normal?

Stays that way until I reboot.

 

[ARAN_108]

Can you manually control the fan speeds.
Go here:
Nvidia Control Panel -> Performance -> Device Settings

Check for "cooling" setting and how it's set.

 

[blackberry14]

I found an Intel UHD Graphics Control Panel but couldn't find that one nor the DirectX settings. I just installed the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver but don't have time to test it out. I am not going to be home for over a week so I'll continue when I get back. Thanks for your help.

 

[blackberry14]

So I did find the NVIDIA Control Panel but when I tried to open it, it gives me an error. ---->NVIDIA Display settings are not available. "You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU."

EDIT: I looked this up and plugged the display into the correct HDMI port (NVIDIA GPU card) instead of the spare HDMI port.

 

[ARAN_108]

So I did find the NVIDIA Control Panel but when I tried to open it, it gives me an error. ---->NVIDIA Display settings are not available. "You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU."

EDIT: I looked this up and plugged the display into the correct HDMI port (NVIDIA GPU card) instead of the spare HDMI port.

Now you should be able to open the Nvidia Control Panel

 

[blackberry14]

Not sure where to find cooling settings

 

[ARAN_108]

Download Nvidia nTune to customize the fan speed, GPU clock etc... Then go to the performance tab and control the fan speed.

 

[blackberry14]

I downloaded and installed NVIDIA nTune. I tried running the program but it gives me a bluescreen and reboots. Sometimes the control panel opens but it gives me bluescreen and reboots before I can save the options.

 

[ARAN_108]

Just open the Nvidia control panel, the performance options might be shown there.

 

[blackberry14]

Issue seems to be resolved.

Steps taken:
update BIOS
update graphics card driver
plug monitor into correct HDMI port