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Video card fan
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 |
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Video card fan
Andy wrote:
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 Maybe. Depends on your system. The fans on my floor comps vid cards run all the time. The laptop fans run when they feel like it. |
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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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is the civilising influence in this country ... I think it is the most important institution in this country. - John Humphrys, Radio Times 7-13/06/2003 |
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Video card fan
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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is the civilising influence in this country ... I think it is the most important institution in this country. - John Humphrys, Radio Times 7-13/06/2003 My card is a I have a VGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 7300GS 256-P2-N437-LR 256MB PCI-EXPRESS PCIe VIDEO CARD DVI card. |
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Video card fan
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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is the civilising influence in this country ... I think it is the most important institution in this country. - John Humphrys, Radio Times 7-13/06/2003 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. |
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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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is the civilising influence in this country ... I think it is the most important institution in this country. - John Humphrys, Radio Times 7-13/06/2003 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 |
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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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is the civilising influence in this country ... I think it is the most important institution in this country. - John Humphrys, Radio Times 7-13/06/2003 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 |
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In message , Andy
writes: On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 9:13:17 AM UTC-5, Paul wrote: [] 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 Glad you got it working! Though I'd not have thought 8.7 watts to be something that required active cooling. Though of course I suppose it would only be at idle when the display has gone blank while the PC is in one of the relevant modes, so I'd have expected the fan to be working most of the time - as you've now got (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf You can be tough without being rude - Nick Clegg, 2014 July |
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Andy wrote:
After removing the fan and cleaning it, it now works. Maybe be the fan cable was not making full contact. ? Andy The cleaning probably helped. Keep an eye on it. Speedfan or GPUZ might report the current operating temperature. The two-wire fan has no easy means of monitoring whether it is spinning or not. If the fan had three wires, it might have been possible to monitor it. (Picture of an OK temperature value...) http://i59.tinypic.com/2pyywoz.gif http://www.almico.com/speedfan451.exe http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/ (top one...) Sometimes, a video card with a passive heatsink, plus an 80mm case fan held near it, can be used as an alternative cooling solution. Both my operating PCs here have auxiliary cooling, and the 80mm fans are easier to replace than the goofy fans used on the video card itself. In this picture, the metal support arm is a piece of folded-over aluminum sheet. Screws hold it to the PCI slot covers. Nylon wraps hold the 80mm case fan in place. It blows air upwards onto the adjacent low-end video card. You can see the aluminum heatsink of the video card, just above the fan. The yellow vertical support, is a means of reducing the stress of the motherboard having a heavy CPU cooler. This is the first PC where I bothered to support the CPU cooler like that. http://i62.tinypic.com/slpamc.jpg HTH, Paul |
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