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Radeon RX 580 8 GB fans spinning fast for approx. 10 secs on boot.
My apologies for this long post, this next paragraph is the central issue, the rest is just details in case you are interested. Thanks!
I'm lost with this, some say the fast fan is normal on boot, but for how long? Was not like this 3 days ago. Don't want to damage the Radeon. Maybe this is how it should be all the time in the first place, I’m lost! Also this behavior happens after selecting a High Sierra while using the boot selective drive (option/alt) on startup/restart AND also happens when after selecting a new startup drive on System Preferences. The issue is not there while switching between Mojave boots. Drives check good on disk utility's first aid. Any clues for this not-so high-tech-newbie? Thanks in advance for listening!
Details:
I've tried researching this to the max the entire day today.. experimented with my Mac Pro 5,1 with different boot drives, flashed a good fresh BootROM file, and I can't figure out this NEW behavior.
So once upon a time (3 days ago) life was good with my Mac Pro. I have multiple internal boot drives 3 HDD 1SSD 1 NVME-Switched with startech adapter. Running Mojave on the SSD, NVME, and one HDD; and running High Sierra on 2 different HDD. I have the latest EnableGop and 144.0.0.0.0 BootRom.
So a little bit of history, I believe or I have been believing that an unusual long fan rev on boot was something tweakable because of my success using the SMC reset (shutdown/power cable off 20 sec/ power up) resolving this issue for as long as I can remember, a long lasting solution (for months) until now.
The strangest of this behavior is that as long as I boot from one Mojave boot drive to another, there is absolutely no problem. There is a slight 1/2 second pulse at the end of the boot and that's it -normal! However, as soon as I go to the High Sierra drives, the first boot is normal, but any subsequent boot including restart on the same drive, will give a loud 10 second spin on the Radeon fans.
Going from High Sierra to Mojave has this issue as well. It is not until after going back to the Mojave boots that the issue resolves itself.
I do have a readout for the fan speeds and these are the Radeon's and not the cheese grater's. I know I will get the long high speed fans on the boot because during the shutdown I can see some white and red dots on the display, another mystery, is 100% predictable, very consistent.
The only 'unusual thing' happening during these few days was a QNAP tech tweaking issues (while on one of the High Sierra drives) trying to solve some uncommanded restart issues on the TS-231. He disabled 'Watchdog monitor' and updated accordingly. I removed all drives except the High Sierra bootable drive before he started working with TeamViewer and video taped the whole thing. I've disconnected the TS-231 from the Mac Pro, and made no difference.
I reinstalled High Sierra on both drives that had the High Sierra (not clean install) maybe I should do a clean/full install?
I'm lost with this, some say the fast fan is normal on boot, but for how long? Was not like this 3 days ago. Don't want to damage the Radeon. Maybe this is how it should be all the time in the first place, I’m lost! Also this behavior happens after selecting a High Sierra while using the boot selective drive (option/alt) on startup/restart AND also happens when after selecting a new startup drive on System Preferences. The issue is not there while switching between Mojave boots. Drives check good on disk utility's first aid. Any clues for this not-so high-tech-newbie? Thanks in advance for listening!
Details:
I've tried researching this to the max the entire day today.. experimented with my Mac Pro 5,1 with different boot drives, flashed a good fresh BootROM file, and I can't figure out this NEW behavior.
So once upon a time (3 days ago) life was good with my Mac Pro. I have multiple internal boot drives 3 HDD 1SSD 1 NVME-Switched with startech adapter. Running Mojave on the SSD, NVME, and one HDD; and running High Sierra on 2 different HDD. I have the latest EnableGop and 144.0.0.0.0 BootRom.
So a little bit of history, I believe or I have been believing that an unusual long fan rev on boot was something tweakable because of my success using the SMC reset (shutdown/power cable off 20 sec/ power up) resolving this issue for as long as I can remember, a long lasting solution (for months) until now.
The strangest of this behavior is that as long as I boot from one Mojave boot drive to another, there is absolutely no problem. There is a slight 1/2 second pulse at the end of the boot and that's it -normal! However, as soon as I go to the High Sierra drives, the first boot is normal, but any subsequent boot including restart on the same drive, will give a loud 10 second spin on the Radeon fans.
Going from High Sierra to Mojave has this issue as well. It is not until after going back to the Mojave boots that the issue resolves itself.
I do have a readout for the fan speeds and these are the Radeon's and not the cheese grater's. I know I will get the long high speed fans on the boot because during the shutdown I can see some white and red dots on the display, another mystery, is 100% predictable, very consistent.
The only 'unusual thing' happening during these few days was a QNAP tech tweaking issues (while on one of the High Sierra drives) trying to solve some uncommanded restart issues on the TS-231. He disabled 'Watchdog monitor' and updated accordingly. I removed all drives except the High Sierra bootable drive before he started working with TeamViewer and video taped the whole thing. I've disconnected the TS-231 from the Mac Pro, and made no difference.
I reinstalled High Sierra on both drives that had the High Sierra (not clean install) maybe I should do a clean/full install?
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