Strange fan usage on 390x at boot

[bioshockeruk]

I recently became the proud owner of a powercolor pcs+ r9 390x. Absolutely love the card. Not as hot as expected and reasonably quiet. Well that is until I reboot. I'm running latest stable release (not beta) drivers from amd. Crimson I believe. And when I boot or reboot my machine once it posts and begins to load windows 10 my fans suddenly ramp up and are extremely noisy on my gpu.

When Ive arrived at desktop I look at the crimson Radeon settings and under global settings for overdrive I see the fans are set to manual at 70%. If i reset back to default the fans slow down back to normal and everything is fine. Just annoying when I have to do this on every boot.

Anyone else getting this? Is this just a driver bug? I should also mention that I also formatted my ssd and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows 10 and drivers to eliminate any software errors.

 

[p5ychonaut]

The WHQL Crimson driver (15.11) has a fan speed bug which sets the fan to a manual speed setting on reboot.

The Crimson beta driver (15.11.1) includes a hotfix to prevent this occurring.

 

[bioshockeruk]

OK awesome. Guess that answers it. Same old amd driver issues then!

 

[Dave2150]

OK awesome. Guess that answers it. Same old amd driver issues then!

I suspect the driver bug wasn't the issue - since the bug was that fan speeds were locked to 20% (low speed). You describe the fans running at high speed, hence the noise.

I'd look elsewhere for the problem, closely monitor your fan speed and temperatures while idle and gaming.

 

[ScoTTyBEEE]

My 290x fan always spins a little faster at boot for some reason, not much faster but fast enough so I can hear in on the desktop which is annoying. I run a program called MSI VGA Fan Control and it seems to fix it. Might help.

 

[muziqaz]

Did you have another AMD card before 390x? did you clean drivers completely before putting in 390x and installing new drivers?
Do you have 3rd party fan controlling software, like Afterburner or Trixx?