It was exactly like this with my 4870 which ended up on eBay. Then, once you're sensitized to it, it bugs you every time you hear it. The thing is with niggly issues like this, is that the annoyance factor can be initially quite low, but if you keep hearing it during repeated reboots or resets, such as when troubleshooting a PC, it can get annoying very quickly. It really would be quite cheap to implement and save the nerves of thousands of people, me included. If that doesn't help after a couple of tries, the card can be switched to a low power safe mode, a beeping sound made and a message sent back to the card driver to alert the user to the problem with a 'fan is failing' popup window. If it's not spinning sufficiently after say, three seconds, it can give a quick blast of juice to get it going. A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. If Windows 10 Explorer does not display the right icon for drives but a generic one.

Open the Windows Task Scheduler and create a new task with the option to start SpeedFan. Also, that repeated spin-up will wear out the fan that little bit faster, too.Īll they have to do is invest a little more money and you could have a system that detects the fan speed. If SpeedFan does not auto start with Windows. However, it still doesn't give them an excuse in my book - it's just a cheap money saving fix for a potential problem that will happen a long time down the line. That sounds like a very plausible explanation for it, erocker.

Launch speedfan on startup