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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