I Think My Vid Card Died...

[Virtualbody1234]

How long have you had the card?

Maybe you could get a new fan under warranty?

[Skillian]

Cool, cheers Livy I think using 1 as the number worked - as long as I don't get the feds showing up at my door before the cooler does!

edit: VB, I've had the card about a year and a half, if I remember rightly the warranty was only for a year. Unfortunately I stupidly can't remember where I bought it from (some online retailer) and don't have a receipt/invoice - oh well.

[tesco]

the video card fan should be a header like on a motherboard right? try unplugging it from the video card and plug the fan into teh motherboard's case\chasis fan header and see if it spins up, if that works and the wire reaches to the video card then voila problem solved, if it doesnt reach but you are sure it works you could cut teh wires and attach them to a moelx connecter but that would definately void and warranties on the power supply and video card and would also be slightly unsafe, but that is what i would do, beucase thats just the kind of guy that i am.

[Skillian]

Yeah I tried earlier connecting it to the fan connector on the mobo - no joy. I think it's the fan rather than the connector.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Skillian@18 February 2004 - 20:02
Yeah I tried earlier connecting it to the fan connector on the mobo - no joy. I think it's the fan rather than the connector.

alright so its definately the fan causing the problem, i wouldnt run the computer too much, and dont play many games either because you might damage the card, atleast until you get a new heatink and fan.

[Livy]

if u got any spare fans lying around try hooking that up temp.

[Skillian]

Yeah I certainly won't be running any games on it til i get the new fan. I'm wary of having the computer on at all but I never actually realised how much I used it until now - It's hard keeping it switched off - no movies, no music, I've got nothing to do!

Livy, I have got a spare 80mm fan here but I wouldn't know how to get it to cool my video card - nowhere to fix it...

[tesco]

Originally posted by Skillian@18 February 2004 - 20:30
I'm wary of having the computer on at all but I never actually realised how much I used it until now - It's hard keeping it switched off - no movies, no music, I've got nothing to do!

lol, same, that happened to me when my power supply busted a few weeks ago. Im trying to fix it and im like i know ill put some music on, crap. then im like i know ill go ask people on klite forum what they think the problem iss, crap again. then i wanted to look up the prices for new power supplys online, once again, crap. eventually i tok my old slow ass computer, hooked it up in my roomm and used that but it was so slow

[Skillian]

Right, any use of the comp will be minimal now, but when I am using it I will have the comp laying on its side with the side panel off, and I've put an 80 mm fan resting on the PCI slots so it's blowing directly onto the GPU - hopefully this will prevent any permanent damage until I get the proper HS/fan on Friday...

[tesco]

Originally posted by Skillian@18 February 2004 - 21:03
Right, any use of the comp will be minimal now, but when I am using it I will have the comp laying on its side with the side panel off, and I've put an 80 mm fan resting on the PCI slots so it's blowing directly onto the GPU - hopefully this will prevent any permanent damage until I get the proper HS/fan on Friday...

thats sounds good... just remember too cehck on it once in a while to make sure it isnt too hot.