Which card do you have?

Did you switch the BIOS and then not switch it back?

CoercionShaman
Did you switch the BIOS and then not switch it back?

is there a bios switch on the card? maybe i hit it and didn't realize it. i'm not overclocking it so i don't really pay attention to that stuff.

It needs to be on the master setting.  Not sure which that is.  It is labeled on the card near the switch.  Just change it and reboot and see if that resolves the issue.
 
If your power target in Precision shows 130%, it is in the slave mode.

As mentioned above, did you reboot your system after making the switch?
 
The 'slave' BIOS sets the fan to a minimum 20% (or maybe it is 30%) and increases your power limit.  I'm still pretty sure that is what you did.  If you did reboot and it didn't change, try to reboot again.  There is a forum post in here somewhere where a user had a problem with there system not catching the BIOS change the first time.

CoercionShaman
As mentioned above, did you reboot your system after making the switch?
 
The 'slave' BIOS sets the fan to a minimum 20% (or maybe it is 30%) and increases your power limit.  I'm still pretty sure that is what you did.  If you did reboot and it didn't change, try to reboot again.  There is a forum post in here somewhere where a user had a problem with there system not catching the BIOS change the first time.

ok. so i switched it from the original left setting to the right setting and rebooted and the fans are still spinning. so i rebooted a 2nd time and the fans are still spinning. then i powered down my pc and started from my pc being off and the fans are atill spinning. 
 
the fan speed is now either 41%, 42% or jumping between 41% and 42%. IDK what to think.

CoercionShaman
For the default setting, the switch should be away from the power connectors, I believe.  A cold boot may definitely be necessary as your system may not allow the BIOS change to be recognized otherwise.  I should have said that instead of a restart.

ok i will switch it back to the left position (furthest away from the power connectors). this is the setting it was originally set at when i noticed the fans spinning at 40%.
 
i will switch it back, turn off the pc, cold boot, check the fan speed. if it is still spinning at 40% i will turn it off a 2nd time and cold boot again. brb

Sajin
Sounds like the card may have the same vbios loaded on both the master & secondary.

I wondered that, too, except he says in the OP that they were off before.  That is when I made the assumption that he moved the BIOS switch.  Other possibilities that he modified the fan curve in PX or AB and it starts at boot or his UEFI settings aren't allowing it to read the new BIOS?
 
EDIT:  Can you run GPU-Z to see what BIOS is running under each setting, brownsfan70?

Yeah, make sure px & ab are completely uninstalled from the system as they could be applying custom fan curves on startup.

CoercionShaman

Sajin
Sounds like the card may have the same vbios loaded on both the master & secondary.

I wondered that, too, except he says in the OP that they were off before.  That is when I made the assumption that he moved the BIOS switch.  Other possibilities that he modified the fan curve in PX or AB and it starts at boot or his UEFI settings aren't allowing it to read the new BIOS?
 
EDIT:  Can you run GPU-Z to see what BIOS is running under each setting, brownsfan70?

ok i switched it back to stock (left position) and checked GPU-Z and the bios version is 86.04.17.00.80
 
also i DID slightly alter the fan curve in aggressive mode. could that have screwed something up? i did NOT change or fiddle with the power in precision x oc.
 
and the fan speed button on the lower right of precision x oc is set to ON (glowing aqua green).

CoercionShaman

Sajin
Yeah, make sure px & ab are completely uninstalled from the system as they could be applying custom fan curves on startup.

ok i will try this. please pray my video card doesn't melt or explode! yipes! :)
Or don't allow it to start with windows.  You should also be able to turn off auto on the fans and will use the BIOS curve.  That is why I asked about using software in an earlier post.  Precision is running the fan curve you have set as Sajin said.
 
If nothing else, you learned about the BIOS switch from all of this and a little more about PX.

Sajin

brownsfan70

Sajin
Yeah, make sure px & ab are completely uninstalled from the system as they could be applying custom fan curves on startup.

wait.. are you saying to uninstal precision x oc completely? and then game with it not being installed? won't that fry my video card? i'm guessing it won't fry my card because it didn't start up a few days ago and i was running either fallout 4 or assassin's creed black flag (i forget which it was) for like 3 hours or something and i checked my temps and noticed precision x oc wasn't on. so i quickly turned it on and it never even went over 41C and the fans never even spinned up anyways LOL :)

Yes, uninstall it. Your card won't overheat without precision x.

ok. i will try and that and run fallout 4 ultra / max. fo4, rise of the tomb raider, witcher 3 and enb  modded skyrim (with SFO) the only games that get the card hot enough to kick in the fans. i will run gpuz in the background and check temps.
 
is there any way i can adjust the RGB lights on the card without precision x oc being turned on? and if not can you ask the software guys to make a separate app for the RGB lights? i LOVE those color changing RGB lights! they are very cool!
 
 EDIT: unchecked start with windows and the fans are not spinning at desktop now. it worked just by not starting up with precision x turned on at startup.

Sajin
Only way to adjust rgb lights is with precision x. Glad you figured out the issue. 

ok thx for your help :)