Ever since nvidia update, GPU fan spins at 100% after killing X

beepressure · 2010-03-03 04:43:25

I've got an nvidia 7900gt and im using the nvidia 195.36.08-1 driver and when I exit my wm to a command line the GPU fan will spin full blast and it's really loud. It wont slow down until i startx again. I've looked around in nvidia-settings and really dont see much.

If i boot my computer up, the fan spins at normal speed until i start an x session and then when i leave it its real loud.

whats going on here? It really only started when i updated to this driver version

cscorley · 2010-03-03 05:24:25

mine has always done this, even in different distros.

beepressure · 2010-03-03 19:30:37

cscorley wrote:

mine has always done this, even in different distros.

Never has happened to me ever, on any distro. I also updated kernel26 during the same Syu. I am using 2.6.32.9-1. Also i am on an arch64 system

ozar · 2010-03-03 19:37:57

My 9600GT and GTS250 cards do that as well and always have, but my GTX260 doesn't do it.

It's my understanding from the nVidia forums that this is normal behavior for each of these models. Not sure about your model, though.

beepressure · 2010-03-03 19:41:43

ozar wrote:

My 9600GT and GTS250 cards do that as well and always have, but my GTX260 doesn't do it.
It's my understanding from the nVidia forums that this is normal behavior for each of these models. Not sure about your model, though.

It's really annoying because when i am done using my computer for the night, I quit X and logout. But I cannot sleep with this fan going 100%. I guess i will have to leave X running all the time.

ozar · 2010-03-03 19:56:52

beepressure wrote:

ozar wrote:
My 9600GT and GTS250 cards do that as well and always have, but my GTX260 doesn't do it.
It's my understanding from the nVidia forums that this is normal behavior for each of these models. Not sure about your model, though.
It's really annoying because when i am done using my computer for the night, I quit X and logout. But I cannot sleep with this fan going 100%. I guess i will have to leave X running all the time.

Yup, I understand completely. When I first got the 9600GT, that was the first thing that I didn't like about it. Then the same happened with the 250GTS. Yes, it really is annoying.

It seems like I remember reading somewhere that a video bios/firmware uprade might stop that behavior, but not sure. It might be worth checking out, though.

clearloon · 2010-03-04 08:38:50

I get the same behaviuor with my GeForce 9800 GT - it's always been this way.

Falcata · 2010-03-05 09:52:15

I don't get this behavior, but the fans spin at 100% for half a second when my computer shuts off. Also, the other day I had a split-second power outage. My computer didn't completely lose power, but it was enough to lose my session and black out my screen. My fans started running at 100% when this happened, so I panicked and shut off my computer.

Glad I wasn't using ext4.

antonikus · 2010-03-06 12:30:17

nVidia cars... they have a problem with the latest driver (2010-March) sometimes even frying the card on windows, due to having the fan not spin up as it should.

beepressure · 2010-03-07 01:12:27

I did an -Syu today and there was new nvidia drivers to be installed. 190.53-1 to be exact. Now that i've downloaded and installed there I no longer get the annoying spin up on a bash prompt. Must be the 195 was just too problematic and they decided to go back to the old ones?

ozar · 2010-03-07 01:37:20

beepressure wrote:

I did an -Syu today and there was new nvidia drivers to be installed. 190.53-1 to be exact. Now that i've downloaded and installed there I no longer get the annoying spin up on a bash prompt. Must be the 195 was just too problematic and they decided to go back to the old ones?

The downgrade today was related to this:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92619

Edit: ...what's weird is that I've had the fan spin up that you described above for several years with all the various drivers that have been released, so I don't know why some graphics cards do it, and others don't, some drivers cause it for certain cards, and others don't.

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#1 2010-03-03 04:43:25

Ever since nvidia update, GPU fan spins at 100% after killing X

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