My Video Card's Fan
<div class="IPBDescription">don't work no more</div> Hi. I have a “V9280 ASUS Geforce4 Ti4200-AGP8x w/ 128mb”.
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Aww shucks, thanks. I love my card, it works like a dream. I’d really like to solve the problem any way I can without resorting to getting a new card.
Recently, my video card’s fan got very loud. It sounded like, I don’t know, a baby elephant was being cut up inside my case. I opened my case and (to my relief) found no infant elephant (alive or otherwise). However, my card’s fan was caked in filth. Dust, fluff and crap encased the fan, so I got a whole bunch of ear-cleaners (you may know them as Q-Tips, I think?) and cleaned out the fan.
This worked well for about a week, until one morning I turned on my computer and was greeted by the chainsaw sound of my gfx card’s fan going completely bananas. I opened the case and it seemed as though the blades were hitting against the side of the ASUS heatsinky-thing or whatever it is. So I cut a bit back from where it seemed to be hitting , and replaced the card. No such luck, now the fan won’t start at all. I pull it out again, take the whole fan part out and put it back in again, hoping to relodge something I thought I must have dislodged.
The fan started up this time, made the same really loud noise (sounded like the wheel of fortune hitting the little ticker, only as if it were driven by a car sitting at the lights, revving it’s engine). However this time it stopped after a little. It only started again after I nudged it with my finger. It’s not hitting the side, but it’s still making the noise. I put the case back upright and watched it for a little, prodding it to start again when it stopped. It seemed to be too loose, and it seems to be shaking around a bit, not just going around.
I think I’ve pulled the fan out a bit or something?
Anyway, resigned to the fact that I’ve stuffed my fan, I went online looking for a replacement (I’m from Australia, so I checked AusPCMarket’s gfx card cooling section.
<a href='http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_image_products.php?input' target='_blank'>http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_image_products.php?input</a>[category_id]=420]
The Ti-Compatible one they have listed:
<a href='http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input' target='_blank'>http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input</a>[product_code]=CS-TTG4VGA&input[category_id]=420]
doesn’t look like it would fit, but I don’t know. I checked the ASUS webpage for <a href='http://www.asus.com/products/vga/v9280vs/overview.htm' target='_blank'>my model</a> (V9280-VS Gf4 Ti4200-AGP8x).
Any help on anything above would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I hate links with [] in them. Makes forums go nutso. Please copy paste the whole link into a new window (including the parts after "input"). Sorry.
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Aww shucks, thanks. I love my card, it works like a dream. I’d really like to solve the problem any way I can without resorting to getting a new card.
Recently, my video card’s fan got very loud. It sounded like, I don’t know, a baby elephant was being cut up inside my case. I opened my case and (to my relief) found no infant elephant (alive or otherwise). However, my card’s fan was caked in filth. Dust, fluff and crap encased the fan, so I got a whole bunch of ear-cleaners (you may know them as Q-Tips, I think?) and cleaned out the fan.
This worked well for about a week, until one morning I turned on my computer and was greeted by the chainsaw sound of my gfx card’s fan going completely bananas. I opened the case and it seemed as though the blades were hitting against the side of the ASUS heatsinky-thing or whatever it is. So I cut a bit back from where it seemed to be hitting , and replaced the card. No such luck, now the fan won’t start at all. I pull it out again, take the whole fan part out and put it back in again, hoping to relodge something I thought I must have dislodged.
The fan started up this time, made the same really loud noise (sounded like the wheel of fortune hitting the little ticker, only as if it were driven by a car sitting at the lights, revving it’s engine). However this time it stopped after a little. It only started again after I nudged it with my finger. It’s not hitting the side, but it’s still making the noise. I put the case back upright and watched it for a little, prodding it to start again when it stopped. It seemed to be too loose, and it seems to be shaking around a bit, not just going around.
I think I’ve pulled the fan out a bit or something?
Anyway, resigned to the fact that I’ve stuffed my fan, I went online looking for a replacement (I’m from Australia, so I checked AusPCMarket’s gfx card cooling section.
<a href='http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_image_products.php?input' target='_blank'>http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_image_products.php?input</a>[category_id]=420]
The Ti-Compatible one they have listed:
<a href='http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input' target='_blank'>http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input</a>[product_code]=CS-TTG4VGA&input[category_id]=420]
doesn’t look like it would fit, but I don’t know. I checked the ASUS webpage for <a href='http://www.asus.com/products/vga/v9280vs/overview.htm' target='_blank'>my model</a> (V9280-VS Gf4 Ti4200-AGP8x).
Any help on anything above would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I hate links with [] in them. Makes forums go nutso. Please copy paste the whole link into a new window (including the parts after "input"). Sorry.
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If it says its compatible, it most likely is, even though it might look differant it would still be able to connect.
I have a Radeon 9000 Pro, also an uber 1337 card, I can't afford a new one, so...
WD-40!
I unscrewed the fan from the card, looked at the motor, well, it had a little removable thing that exposed the 'drive shaft' of the motor. I removed that and put a tiny amount of the magic lubricant (no, not that kind of lubricant pervs!) and sealed the motor back up, replaced the fan and it works like a charm now.
If your gonna replace it, you'll probably just want to replace the fan (rather than the whole heatsink it sits in) so my advice would be to take the fan out so you just have the fan in your hand and measure the diameters and dimensions and maybe see if theres some sort of serial number on it.
Chances are its just a bog standard 40 or 30mm fan. So look around on some sites and see if you can find one. Looking at your picture its just a regular 2 pin style, as most VGA fans are.
The one you linked will fit your card, but it comes with its own heatsink, so you will have to remove your current one.
Hope that helps some.
If your gonna replace it, you'll probably just want to replace the fan (rather than the whole heatsink it sits in) so my advice would be to take the fan out so you just have the fan in your hand and measure the diameters and dimensions and maybe see if theres some sort of serial number on it.
Chances are its just a bog standard 40 or 30mm fan. So look around on some sites and see if you can find one. Looking at your picture its just a regular 2 pin style, as most VGA fans are.
The one you linked will fit your card, but it comes with its own heatsink, so you will have to remove your current one.
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That's exactly what I think I did.
I wouldn't feel comfortable removing the heatsink on the current one, seeing as I managed to screw it up with something (that I would have thought was) relatively harmless like an ear cleaner.
Do you think it would be possible to reconnect the impeller to the drive shaft? I don't think I could really break it further, so I might try that.
So the measurement that I make is all the way from one end of a blade to the oposite blade?