Re: Nvidia fans not activating

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 08.01.2025 23:21, Eben King wrote:

> Hi, I have an Nvidia GTX 970 with driver 535.216 on Debian 12.9.  The fans
> don't generally come on on the video card, and if I let it get to the mid
> 90s it crashes.  Sometimes the driver behaves and holds the card in the mid
> 60s, but not always.  As a workaround, running with one monitor disabled
> lets it keep up by passive radiation.  Is there an easy fix to this ("don't
> use Nvidia" is probably not easy at this point)?  Thanks.
>
>     
    By default, fans should be running on this card. You have to jump
    extra hoops to make manual fan control available.
    If fans are not running then it is a hardware problem, with fans
    themselves (dead, clogged with dirt, etc.), or faulty fan controller
    chip on card PCB.
    Some newer cards (From GTX10xx series, I think) have so called
    "silent mode", which doesn't turn on fans until GPU temperature is
    about 40-50 C.
    
    Do not overheat your VGA, it will die without proper cooling.

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 With kindest regards, Alexander.

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