On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 9:13:17 AM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Bob F wrote:
Andy wrote:
On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 5:25:59 AM UTC-5, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:
In message ,
Andy writes:
I have a video card that has a fan.

I have not seen the fan running.

Does it only run when the card is in heavy use ?

Thanks a lot,
Andy
Can you touch the part of the board the fan would cool, and if so do
you
burn your fingers?

Can you _make_ the card work hard? There must be freeware out there
that would do so - possibly from the card manufacturer (who might
also have a utility to tell if all is well, such as the fans - maybe
even explicitly
to test them).
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My card is a I have a VGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 7300GS 256-P2-N437-LR 256MB
PCI-EXPRESS PCIe VIDEO CARD DVI card.

I would be surprised if the fan on that card was not supposed to run all the
time. Check to make sure the wire to the fan is plugged in to the appropriate
header on the card, or plug it into one of the motherboard fan connectors if
that doesn't seem to work. Or, attach a replacement fan to the card (I've used
aluminum foil duct tape with non-matching fans) and plug it into one of those
headers.

Speedfan should be able to show you the operating temp of the card, or if it
smells hot, that should be a pretty good indication it has a problem.



This is an example of the card.

http://www.gpureview.com/database/im...56-P2-N437.jpg

The 7300 GS is 8.7 watts at idle, so yes, the fan
should be running. The bearing could be seized on it.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/gra...e_7.html#sect1

Paul

After removing the fan and cleaning it, it now works.

Maybe be the fan cable was not making full contact. ?

Andy