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My RTX 4090's fans go full blast for 5 seconds within 24 hours after reinstalling Windows!

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Dave3000

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I have a Founder's Edition RTX 4090 and I noticed that every time I reinstall Windows at some point within 24 hours after reinstalling Windows my 4090's fans go full blast for 5 seconds, no matter what I'm doing on my PC, whether it's web browsing, playing X-Plane 12, or just sitting there doing nothing in the desktop interface. This happened twice within 24 hours after reinstalling Windows 11 yesterday. I can tell it's the fans or one of the fans on my 4090 because I can tell the difference between the sound of my case's, CPU's, and GPU's fans in this system and I keep my case fans at a fixed speed. My GPU temperatures idle at around 35C at during gaming and Valley benchmarking around low 60's at peak. This happens in every driver I tried for my GPU but recently it happened twice yesterday, about 3 hours apart, and with the latest GPU drivers as of this posting. I owned this card for about 2.5 years and it did it from the start, but I always thought that maybe it was some kind of a initialization process for this card in the drivers of this card since it happens within 24 hours after a Windows reinstall or maybe a driver issue but now I think the card is defective since it did it twice yesterday, within 24 hours after reinstall Windows as I mentioned. This also happened in Linux Mint, at some point within 24 hours after installing Linux Mint every time. Anyone else here with an RTX 4000 series card have its fans go full blast for around 5 seconds within 24 hours after installing Windows?
 
Check that Windows 11 didn't "helpfully" decide to install older video card drivers for you?

My previous graphics card (R9 380X) had an occasional habit of cranking its fans up to 100% despite next to no GPU activity, sometimes they'd stop within a few seconds, sometimes I had to reboot the PC for it to snap out of it.
 
Does anything else happen when the fans spin up? Screen flickers, brief black screen, game freezes?
It sounds like the video driver restarting but it's weird that you get the exact same thing in Windows and Linux, that sort of points more at hardware than software.

If the card is hitting it's clocks and stable and cool benchmarking I'd try not to worry too much.
That said it would annoy me until I found out what was going on!
 
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