No fan control for GTX 1060

[monene]

Hi guys,

I’m trying to take advantage of an older rig, and tip my toes in mining.

I struggle with temperature, I have an MSI, running the latest hiveos (0.6-207@210808) and latest Nvidia drivers (465.31).

I have tried downgrading both drivers and hiveos, and using beta for hiveos, playing around with Autofan and putting 0 (auto) or 100% in the fan field, with no luck.

Here are the info I’m getting

Tue Aug 10 16:02:38 2021
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 465.31 Driver Version: 465.31 CUDA Version: 11.3 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce … On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 80C P2 77W / N/A | 4578MiB / 6078MiB | 100% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1940 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 6MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 11996 C ./PhoenixMiner 4567MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I could not find anyone with a similar issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[HaloGenius]

Can you post result of nvidia-info (better as screenshot)?

[monene]

Hi, thanks for your message.

Here is the screenshot.

Thanks for your help!

[HaloGenius]

and sorry result of nvidia-oc log please

[monene]

@HaloGenius

nvidia-oc log

There you go!

[HaloGenius]

Strange GPU … like from laptop. What the model?

[monene]

It’s a GS63VR 7RF STEALTH PRO

Specification GS63VR STEALTH PRO (7th Gen) (GEFORCE® GTX 1060)

[HaloGenius]

Ahhh so this is a laptop. Well then, as a rule, the control possibilities are very limited. At least based on the information provided above, you cannot control the fan (because GPU doesn’t have own) and the Power Limit (limited by GPU VBIOS)

[monene]

I see, thanks for clarifying that.

There is an application call Dragon Center that allows control over the fans, but it’s windows only. I did find some alternatives for Linux, but HiveOS wouldn’t let me install anything.

I’ve also made sure I have the latest BIOS installed, but like you mentioned, the settings are limited.

[HaloGenius]

@monene

There is an application call Dragon Center that allows control over the fans, but it’s windows only. I did find some alternatives for Linux, but HiveOS wouldn’t let me install anything.

in most cases such application exists only for Windows

[monene]

Agreed. There is someone that made some progress to “port” MSI control on Linux: GitHub - YoCodingMonster/OpenFreezeCenter: For Those running Linux Distro on MSI laptops. This is the