nvidia (GT210) hot / no fan

[nerdy_kid]

Does the nvidia-settings utility work correctly?
I would try purging the driver and reinstalling it.

[Frogs Hair]

The info is correct , your card has no fanspeed control , that card runs the same speed all the time . Try cleaning the card and connections and take static precautions.

[debili]

The info is correct , your card has no fanspeed control , that card runs the same speed all the time . Try cleaning the card and connections and take static precautions.

Hi FrogsHair thanks for the info !! I took out the card to have a look, it looked clean, but i noticed that compared to my CPU fan, i needed to put a bit more force into my fingers to turn it, i cleaned it as much i could with compressed air and put it back again; after startup i saw the fan moving but not really turning so i took it out again and cleaned it more/ pushed the fan up-down on its axis and so on.... strangely, but after startup the fan made like one turn per 5 seconds, the frequency increased eventually and now, after 5minutes it's pretty fast i can't read the letters in the turning circle and feel cool wind when approaching with my fingers; the GPU temp is now down to 45 C..i wonder if there is a sensor to tell me how fast the fan is spinning now so i can check occasionally
strange, the card/pc is like 9months old...

[cascade9]

I've recently reset my Bios to defaults, could that be in some way related ?

thanks

Nope, that shouldnt make any difference at all.

Hi FrogsHair thanks for the info !! I took out the card to have a look, it looked clean, but i noticed that compared to my CPU fan, i needed to put a bit more force into my fingers to turn it, i cleaned it as much i could with compressed air and put it back again; after startup i saw the fan moving but not really turning so i took it out again and cleaned it more/ pushed the fan up-down on its axis and so on.... strangely, but after startup the fan made like one turn per 5 seconds, the frequency increased eventually and now, after 5minutes it's pretty fast i can't read the letters in the turning circle and feel cool wind when approaching with my fingers; the GPU temp is now down to 45 C..i wonder if there is a sensor to tell me how fast the fan is spinning now so i can check occasionally
strange, the card/pc is like 9months old...

Siezed bearing. Sometimes they are fixable by 'forcing' the fan to spin, but in a lot of cases, its a temporay solution.

Cheaper cards are more likely to have problems like that...but its prety rare for it to happen after 9 months.

[debili]

Nope, that shouldnt make any difference at all.


Siezed bearing. Sometimes they are fixable by 'forcing' the fan to spin, but in a lot of cases, its a temporay solution.

Cheaper cards are more likely to have problems like that...but its prety rare for it to happen after 9 months.

well i can recognize there is a bit of 'uncommon' sound whet the fan spins fast...hope that doesn't mean it'll stop again in a few weeks.
could you recommend any simple fan-speed monitor ? is it even measured on this type of graphic card?

[cascade9]

sorry, I dont know of any fanspeed monitor for nvidia cards for linux. Pretty much all the cards I'm running are passive cooled, so no fan at all.

[efflandt]

The NVIDIA X Server Settings gui under System > Administration usually shows fan speed under Thermal Settings (actually no settings there, just monitoring). But my GT 220 has variable speed fan and someone said yours is fixed speed (when it is running). Or another way to get info in terminal is: nvidia-smi -q -d

This is idle:

Driver Version            : 260.19.12

GPU 0:
    Product Name        : GeForce GT 220
    PCI Device/Vendor ID    : a2010de
    PCI Location ID        : 0:1:0
    Display            : Connected
    Temperature        : 29 C
    Fan Speed        : 20%
    Utilization
        GPU            : 0%
        Memory        : 11%

This is under full load when temperature stops rising:

Driver Version            : 260.19.12

GPU 0:
    Product Name        : GeForce GT 220
    PCI Device/Vendor ID    : a2010de
    PCI Location ID        : 0:1:0
    Display            : Connected
    Temperature        : 55 C
    Fan Speed        : 30%
    Utilization
        GPU            : 99%
        Memory        : 38%