NVIDIA 9800GTX, Overheating in CLI

Yorks · 2009-09-29 14:17:17

Yo, this has been bugging me for a while and left me absolutely paranoid to update arch, all I need is some advice really. Anyway...

Through the summer, I've been using Windows due to the fact my graphics card doesn't cool particularly well, and nvclock doesn't have any support for controlling fan speed on certain 9 series cards (including mine). So through the summer EVGAPrecision and Windows have done the trick. Though I've started getting withdrawal symptoms from Arch D:

The latest nvidia drivers apparently provide support for tweaking your GPUs temperature, which will solve my temperature problems. This however, I'm sure, requires me spending some time out of X to update my system, which leads me to my next problem.

For some reason when in VGA mode my graphics card begins to overheat like crazy. I doubt maxing GPU usage would do it, so my guess is the fans are being slowed or disabled. A comment in the nvclock source code (can't remember where now, been a while) said some 9 series cards have reversed registers for controlling fan speed. So my guess is my fans are instead of being increased with heat, just getting shut off. Why this didn't happen when installing Arch, I'm not sure. Why it works in X and not out, not sure about that either.

My guesses are all probably wrong, but either way my GPU reaches the 105C limit and blinks out. Leaving me with a black screen, and obviously probably raping the life out of my graphics card. Any help on solving this problem would be really appreciated.

Edit: Sorry I gave almost no extra system information. Running 32bit arch. Have been checking temperatures with nvidia-settings. Not too sure what else might be needed.

Last edited by Yorks (2009-09-29 14:21:43)

vi3dr0 · 2009-09-29 16:38:59

I suppose when you have no X, you have no nvidia-settings, which means no GPU freq. and fan control. That may be the problem.

I have similar problem on laptop, with no X GPU is set on max freq. all the time, instead of "powermizing" to 150mhz, or something.

Once again, I'm not sure, just guessing

Yorks · 2009-09-30 09:03:14

Hmm, is there no way of avoiding this problem? I'm not keen on risking damaging my GPU D:

vi3dr0 · 2009-09-30 10:34:13

Maybe give nvclock a try? I never used it, however it seems like capable of changing clock freq. and fanspeed.

I hope it works

Yorks · 2009-09-30 14:28:34

'and nvclock doesn't have any support for controlling fan speed on certain 9 series cards (including mine).'

Sorry man, already tried. Either way it's not nvclock that's a problem at the moment. It's being out of X that's causing me the most trouble. I'm not sure if nvclock will help even if it did control fanspeed as I figured it would use the nvidia drivers somehow.

Last edited by Yorks (2009-09-30 14:36:20)

vi3dr0 · 2009-09-30 14:30:10

My mistake, sorry.

jordz · 2009-09-30 15:37:02

When I don't load the nvidia driver (and X.org I think), the fan of my 9600GT runs at full speed?

Yorks · 2009-09-30 17:20:04

Ah, see. That's what I figure is happening with mine. Except because the 9800 cards apparantly have reversed fan registers, mine is being turned off instead of fully on. Hmm, thing is I wonder why it didn't happen at all during installing. Or maybe it did and just didn't get hot enough at the time to kill itself.

Last edited by Yorks (2009-09-30 17:20:21)

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NVIDIA 9800GTX, Overheating in CLI

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