R9 390 fans running @ 100% on PC startup

[thegoo]

I recently built a PC back in September of this year. Everything has been fine up to about a week or so ago. When I boot my PC, the GPU fans kick on to 100% until I log into Windows, then after a few seconds they return to normal (5% or so) If I don't log in, they don't reduce speed. It never did this previously. I tried to figure out what would cause it to do that. I've reinstalled drivers, uninstalled MSI AfterBurner (reinstalled), I've tried to track down specific Win 10 updates that could be related but in the end, I've found nothing.

The GPU temp is around 58-61°C on idle so it's not a temp issue on startup.
It doesn't happen when I resume from sleep; only on a fresh start.
I thought it was a Windows issue because the fans return to normal only after logging in, but I can't seem to narrow it down.


Build Specs

CPU: i7 4790K
Cooling: Corsair H100i
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 7
GPU: MSI R9 390 8GB
PSU: EVGA 750W
HDD 1: Samsung 250GB SSD
HDD 2: WD 1TB
OS: Windows 10 Home

If anyone has any suggestions or fixes, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,
-S

 

[janbas]

its normal for a pc to give 100% power to everything to check if everything is wokring correctly (and if you have a good enough power supply) then when you login the videocard driver will load and will take over control of the power supply to the fans.

you can totally ignore them its normal.

 

[17seconds]

The MSI Twin Frozr cooler has a unique self-cleaning feature where the fans run in reverse at boot up for a few seconds. This will eject a lot of the dust that has accumulated since the last boot up. Your fans are running normally as designed.

 

[mattthetechgeek]

I had the exact same issue with my MSI R9 270X up until yesterday. Have you updated your drivers to 15.12 (Dec. 17) yet?
My guess for the issue is Windows 10 downloaded the new drivers without the additional AMD software and it was causing bugs with the GPU. As soon as I updated AMD Radeon Settings to the newest version the problem went away upon restart, so do that if you haven't already and post back.

 

[17seconds]

I had the exact same issue with my MSI R9 270X up until yesterday. Have you updated your drivers to 15.12 (Dec. 17) yet?
My guess for the issue is Windows 10 downloaded the new drivers without the additional AMD software and it was causing bugs with the GPU. As soon as I updated AMD Radeon Settings to the newest version the problem went away upon restart, so do that if you haven't already and post back.

Oh good point, if its not the Twin Frozr fans cleaning out as they normally do, it's probably this bug (see below). This is supposedly fixed with the latest 15.12 drivers.

AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.12 WHQL
It also addresses a critical issue in which the driver would either spool fan-speeds all the way up to 100% on load, or lock them down at 30%, causing certain GPUs to overheat.
http://www.techpowerup.com/218461/amd-releases-radeon-software-crimson-edition-15-12-whql.html

 

[thegoo]

I had the exact same issue with my MSI R9 270X up until yesterday. Have you updated your drivers to 15.12 (Dec. 17) yet?
My guess for the issue is Windows 10 downloaded the new drivers without the additional AMD software and it was causing bugs with the GPU. As soon as I updated AMD Radeon Settings to the newest version the problem went away upon restart, so do that if you haven't already and post back.

Weird. I guess AMD's "auto-detect" utility isn't telling me the truth. It said all drivers were up to date. They were not. (I didn't have the Dec. 17 update) I manually downloaded them from AMD and everything is back to normal!

I wouldn't have thought anything of the fans starting up at 100%, if they would've been doing it since day 1 but since it has been doing it for the past week only, it seemed odd.

Thanks for the help everyone! It's greatly appreciated.

Until next time,
-Scott

 

[17seconds]

Weird. I guess AMD's "auto-detect" utility isn't telling me the truth. It said all drivers were up to date. They were not. (I didn't have the Dec. 17 update) I manually downloaded them from AMD and everything is back to normal!

I wouldn't have thought anything of the fans starting up at 100%, if they would've been doing it since day 1 but since it has been doing it for the past week only, it seemed odd.

Thanks for the help everyone! It's greatly appreciated.

Until next time,
-Scott

More release notes from the new driver:

Resolved Issues
[83112] Radeon Settings driver update check is not available for minor driver versions