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
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-- 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?
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"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?
Problem solved-got new graphics card last night, its pretty damn good! I went to a computer fair at the national motorcycle museum. They sell loads! There was the new tomb raider, not fake either as far as I could tell, also a Geforce card (Can't remember what it was called, Ti4200 or something) imported from america only a few were made in the batch, with Half Life 2 bundled! Only problem, it was like 350 quid.
Lew...... Serious if ur gonna lie, next time get ur storie straight! Halflife 2 yikes, bend over and let me smack u for being such a dirty boy and lying for all of us.
- Eternal Life, Or Your Money Back -
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Currently looking for a home (team)
That's no lie. I believe it was a GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE after looking at the nvidia site. After reading through sources I think it's compiled from the source that hacker nicked-so probably slightly different from the release version, with different graphics. Next time I go i'll get a picture if you want.
maybe it's call of duty, lol, if you buy some of the products off of Nvidia's site you get the game, when i bought my FX 5200 Ultra, i got COD with it.
but if it was the cracked version, nvidia would be sued outta their pants.
The thing with Nvidia cards is that Nvidia don't actually distribute them-they just supply the chipsets. The manufacturers build and distribute them-which is why you get sparkle geforce x, chaintech geforce x etc. It was probably just a dodgy distributor who got hold of the rip and decided it would be good marketing.
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thanks for the help anyway
