[Gllug] Faulty graphics card

[Rickey Costas]

If its a card with a fan on, it can be caused the fan failing. NVidia fans are 
crap.  Its often (but not always) preceeded, by a loud noise too, which is the 
fan starting to fail. Additionally you can often see the fan isnt spinning 
properly (with the machine on obviously).

If you catch the problem early enough, you can replace the fan before failure.
If you are going to replace the fan, by far the easiest way to remove the old 
fan, is when it is fresh from the machine. You want it to be nice and warm so 
the glue is soft.


Hope that helps,

Rickey.









will wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I came into work this morning to find that there was really bad ghosting 
> on my display.  Dark colours in the display cause grey lines extending 
> in both directions horizontally to the edge of the screen.  The monitor 
> is fine (tested the PC on another monitor and got the same effect) and I 
> seem to remember we had another PC* with the same problem a few months 
> ago, this was fixed by replacing the graphics card.  I am pretty sure it 
> is the card that is knackered, but are there any tests that can be done 
> to test the graphics cards, possibly similar to the memtest86 program 
> that was discussed earlier on the week for testing the system ram?
> 
> Thanks
> Will.
> 
> *Had the same GFX card, Nvidia TNT2 with 32Mb ram.
> 
> 


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