PC Graphics

[metanis1]

HIS brand R9 270X 2GB card.

Working fine until I had to reinstall Windows 10. Now the cooling fans will not modulate to maintain a reasonable temperature.

The fans do work but only at 100% speed. Used MSI Afterburner to prove this.

I have used the AMD cleanup tool and completely removed all AMD software. Then installed the drivers that Win10 liked automatically from 2 years ago. That didn't work so I installed the Adrenalin 19.4.1 version and that didn't work so I completely cleaned those and installed the 19.5.1 beta set and those don't work either.

I have checked my motherboard (MSI 970A-G43) is running the newest BIOS and I reloaded Optimized Defaults on it several times and tried various Energy and Overclocking options and that didn't work.

I have re-flashed the BIOS on my graphics card with newer HIS bios. It's now running in Turbo mode for free after that exercise! BIOS version 113-T21G03-002 to be exact. It bumped me up from 1050MHz to 1140MHz on the main GPU.

I don't get a WattMan interface in Radeon Settings, just something called Global OverDrive. If I leave the Fan Speed set to Off it reports running in Auto mode but the fans do not turn. If I set the Fan Speed control to ON and adjust the slider upward, nothing happens until the slider passes 80% and then both fans on the card begin to run at 100% speed and are very loud. When I move the slider back down to the left as it passes 80% again both fans turn off completely.

Within Win10 I have tried both the Balanced and the High Performance power profiles without fixing the problem.

It doesn't seem reasonable that suddenly the card can no longer modulate the speed of the fans to maintain a cooler temperature while staying somewhat quiet. Or is this the way AMD tries to force us to buy newer hardware by breaking the older stuff. (Yes this is a 5 year old video card but it works great for the 20 year old video game I play! Everquest.)

[metanis1]

Anyone? I see many people have reported similar problems? No one has a fix?

[metanis1]

Last spring, with no answers, I switched out to a spare HD5670 I had. That would at least modulate the fan so it wasn't so noisy. But I thought to give this another go yesterday. So I did a clean uninstall of all AMD software then shut down the system and swapped back to the R9 card. I reset the motherboard BIOS back to optimized defaults and I'm running Windows 10 1903 instead of 1809 but there is absolutely no change to the fan behavior. When the card gets hot enough they spin at 100% and then a few seconds later they turn off completely. This constant noisy pattern is very irritating.

And another nearly identical system that worked properly until this summer has also began the exact same symptoms.

I'm thinking now I might want to build a Win 8.1 system just to see if it's Win10's fault.

[webchef]

I have same card w/ similar probs, I play total war warhammer 2 and about a min after I fully load into a campaign I began noticing frame drop(card was overheating and began throttling), since I have put fan on manual at 100% before starting without any probs, its slightly oc'd at 1070.. The fan had been making a bunch of noise before the probs started(quite dirty) but then it stopped.. I was happy it stopped but didn't put 2 n 2 together till I realized what was happening roughly a month later, so for 2 months i've ran with manual fans on at around 82 degrees..