Hey, when I turned my PC on this morning my Geforce 2 graphics card's fan started buzzing oddly, and hasn't stopped since. It's not a loud buzz but it's loud enough to be annoying. I've taken it out but I can't see any obstructions or anything. It's not too much of a problem as i'm replacing it at christmas, but just wondering if anyones had the same sort of problem.
Also, anyone know where to get RD-RAM cheaply? Its the only one my motherboard takes and its pretty expensive, and at the local computer fair they don't sell it.
EDIT: Getting quite worried now. It's buzzing quietly to itself for about 30 seconds, then every so often it makes a huge buzz then goes quiet for about 10 seconds. Repeat process
get a new fan.. that happened to one of my old proccesor fans, i 'accidently' stuck a pen in it, and those little bearing balls got pulverized, no visual damages, but what a noise!
fortunatly i had another one
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
That happened along time ago to my Geforce 1 card...so now it has an oversized cpu cooler that's placed on the heatsink using 2 rubberbands and 2 screws from a cabinet....it's worked like a charm for 2 years now
A buzzing noise almost always means the ball bearing is broken (when nothing gets in the way of the fan of course).
This is most seen on small fans and cheap fans. Cheap fans tend to have balls out of plastic in stead of eg. metal. Plastic balls will eventually break apart/go out of shape/whatever as they are not really corrosion resistant (the mechanical parts rub against each other).
As long as the fan spins theres really no problem ... other than the noise. A new fan is really what you need, but as they are often build into the cooling plate, you need a new cooling solution. They can be bougth in many online shops, and a local geek store may also help you.
As you will soon get a new gfx card ... simply live with the noise a few weeks more.
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
Advertisement
Post Reply
Edited by the Author.
thanks for the help anyway
