[Gllug] Faulty graphics card

[will]

Rickey Costas wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks,

There is no fan (just opened it up to see) but the muppets from Dell put the 
soundcard directly underneath the gfx card, *nearly* touching the heatsink 
instead of putting the sound card in one of the 4 free PCI slots further down 
the case...

Will.



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