Journal #5311
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-28 11:57:46 UTC
Argh, not this again. :/
I turned on my pc today and heard a weird noise coming out of the case. It was not my CPU fan, not my powersupply fan but my videocard fan! Why do i always get faulty videocard fans!? Its not the first time that my videocard fan starts to show signs of failure. Its still working though, but for how long? Who knows... Anyway, i took out the videocard and used a air compressor to blow out all the dust. I did the same with the rest of the system.
Then i put the card back into its AGP slot, connected all the wires, and turned the pc on. Still the same sound. So i took a pencil and started to poke the fan, hoping that the sound will stop. And it did.
The fan is connected to the card via a 2-pin socket, so my guess is that the fan could easily be replaced by a new one, without having to replace the entire card, cuz the card itself is still working as it should be.
Ill just wait and see what happens...
Balls.
In other news, i have a really cool Brotherhood of Nod logo decal on my window. People walking by outside can see that i fight for Nod.
Edit: 10000 logins. Neat! No message though. :/
I turned on my pc today and heard a weird noise coming out of the case. It was not my CPU fan, not my powersupply fan but my videocard fan! Why do i always get faulty videocard fans!? Its not the first time that my videocard fan starts to show signs of failure. Its still working though, but for how long? Who knows... Anyway, i took out the videocard and used a air compressor to blow out all the dust. I did the same with the rest of the system.
Then i put the card back into its AGP slot, connected all the wires, and turned the pc on. Still the same sound. So i took a pencil and started to poke the fan, hoping that the sound will stop. And it did.
The fan is connected to the card via a 2-pin socket, so my guess is that the fan could easily be replaced by a new one, without having to replace the entire card, cuz the card itself is still working as it should be.
Ill just wait and see what happens...
Balls.
In other news, i have a really cool Brotherhood of Nod logo decal on my window. People walking by outside can see that i fight for Nod.
Edit: 10000 logins. Neat! No message though. :/
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Who still uses AGP?
MuzzleFlash
Me
"So i took a pencil and started to poke the fan, hoping that the sound will stop. And it did. "
sounds to me like delaying the inevitable. you should upgrade the card in my opinion.
Plus, when something on a computer component does go bad, its usually not a good indication of reliability for the working parts that remain
Or do what I did, which is even better:
Take the fan off, plus anything that would obstruct air movement across the stock heatsink, then buy a PCI slot fan that either sucks out, or blows directly at the heatsink.
This way, once you do upgrade, the money you spent on a new fan can go into the new computer and help with cooling.
@ Spike: as long as its AGP...
Don't know really, its just the fan thats being a bitch, the card itself is fine.