Re: Forcing a video card fan to always run at full speed.
I just wanted to say that the video card issue I think is resolved. We installed official AMD drivers (17.4.4). The latest ones wouldn't install properly but I think they were beta. We watched the temp with GPU-Z. It was stable at 45C ~ 48C. GPU-Z showed the fan speed percentage at 20% but the RPMs at 0. We downloaded Furmark and stress tested it. The GPU reached a max temperature of 81C and the fan speed 64%, but was stable.
He is using an official paid-for copy of Windows 10, it was not pirated. He's going to format, reinstall, and use the AMD drivers I downloaded. If the PC still hangs, we're going to start testing RAM and maybe solid state. I don't think Furmark had an option to test the RAM on the video card and with a game, I'm sure it could use more of the video cards RAM than Furmark was using.
I thought it was a little odd though that GPU-Z (and the AMD control catalyst) reported the fan speed percentage at 20% but the fans weren't spinning. The AMD CC reported the fans spinning at 1,200 RPM. Even when we set it to manual, they didn't actually start to spin until we set it to around 1,700RPM.
I just wanted to say that the video card issue I think is resolved. We installed official AMD drivers (17.4.4). The latest ones wouldn't install properly but I think they were beta. We watched the temp with GPU-Z. It was stable at 45C ~ 48C. GPU-Z showed the fan speed percentage at 20% but the RPMs at 0. We downloaded Furmark and stress tested it. The GPU reached a max temperature of 81C and the fan speed 64%, but was stable.
He is using an official paid-for copy of Windows 10, it was not pirated. He's going to format, reinstall, and use the AMD drivers I downloaded. If the PC still hangs, we're going to start testing RAM and maybe solid state. I don't think Furmark had an option to test the RAM on the video card and with a game, I'm sure it could use more of the video cards RAM than Furmark was using.
I thought it was a little odd though that GPU-Z (and the AMD control catalyst) reported the fan speed percentage at 20% but the fans weren't spinning. The AMD CC reported the fans spinning at 1,200 RPM. Even when we set it to manual, they didn't actually start to spin until we set it to around 1,700RPM.
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