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Thanks so much for the replies everyone, I really appreciate it 🙏 I took the advice of some of your replies and here is what I did so far: Firstly I installed GPU tweak (to try boot fans manually) but it didn't work, as the fans still did not...

Yes that could be right, I'll have to have a good look under the magnifying glass to see if I can see anything. Something could use a reflow

There could very well be a cold solder joint somewhere internally. These cards are getting up there in age now and have likely had many heat cool cycles.

Thanks, tjat could be it. Do you know the name of the fan controller chip or location? What normally is the component called?

Thank you, might try that as last resort. Any ideas what could be causing the gpu not turning the fans on? A failed Voltage component somewhere? Could it cause something else to go wrong later on down the line? Is there something I can measure...

Thank you for suggestion, where abouts would I have to go for the Asus 1080 ti bios? Never done it before, but might be worth a try for sure. The 1080 ti strix fans use a small 6 pin connector, I'm not sure what type of adapter that I'd need to...

Thanks for reply, I forgot to mention in my forst post that I tried MSI Afterburner and still no gpu fan power. I also tried the 1080 ti in another pc and still no gpu fan power. Can't see any pinched wires either, same results with the new gpu...

Hi guys, I've just joined here. I have a Strix 1080 ti, the card boots to Windows, plays games fine (no artifacts) although the GPU fans just do not work, no matter how hot the card gets.... I initially purchased the x3 new gpu fans and...