Hi
My graphics card (Palit 9800 GT) is very very loud at bootup before the OS loads the graphics driver. I was wondering if there was a hardware (or low level software, eg BIOS) way of forcing it to put the speed at like 30% or so at bootup, and then pass control to the driver once it loads? I haven't noticed any obvious fan control on my graphics card.
GPU Fan LOUD without driver
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The behaviour you're observing is entirely normal. As you say until Windows kicks in the BIOS on the graphics card is in control, and it is set to run the fan at at a high level, sometimes 100%. I guess the manufacturers adopt this approach because it guarantees that the fan starts, whereas at 40% or 30% settings that might not always be the case.
The two options are (a) edit the graphics card BIOS using something like NiBiTor or (b) replace the graphics card cooler and fan with an aftermarket quieter alternative such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 9800.
The two options are (a) edit the graphics card BIOS using something like NiBiTor or (b) replace the graphics card cooler and fan with an aftermarket quieter alternative such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 9800.
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OK, I'll try option (a). The reason I'd like to 'fix' this is because I reboot lots of times as I dual boot windows and Linux, and the sound is literally painful when it's on 100%.lodestar wrote:The behaviour you're observing is entirely normal. As you say until Windows kicks in the BIOS on the graphics card is in control, and it is set to run the fan at at a high level, sometimes 100%. I guess the manufacturers adopt this approach because it guarantees that the fan starts, whereas at 40% or 30% settings that might not always be the case.
The two options are (a) edit the graphics card BIOS using something like NiBiTor or (b) replace the graphics card cooler and fan with an aftermarket quieter alternative such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 9800.
As for option b I already have some sort of aftermarket cooler, well it came with one, it's a palit card. It's a huge copper flower type cooler, looks much better than the single slot nvidia cooler. I don't need liquid cooling, which I assume would be the next step in GPU cooling.
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Yes I use rivatuner alot to o'c my graphics card, but as the previous poster said, rivatuner runs at the driver level ontop of windows even, so there is no way (other than defying nature's laws of existence of course ) of using that to lower the fan level before the graphics driver starts.
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