Quake3World

So before I find another one, how bad of an idea would it be to just unplug it? The card is an ATI Radeon 9000 PRO. The computer is on 24/7 and I don't play any games.

I doubt you'd get away with it.

Same logic as taking the fan off your CPU because you rarely take the processor to 100% usage. It'll still fuck up.

You need a new one or a replacement card, or leave it until the card dies. The fan on my old GF4 fucked up but the card kept going with a noisy fan for 6 months or so before I had to strip it down.

My Radeon 9200 AIW never had a fan and it's still going strong. Of course it came without one.

Snag a fan off something else and strap it to your video card.

Air Flow++

YourGrandpa wrote:Snag a fan off something else and strap it to your video card.

Air Flow++

The way the fan is mounted is weird, I doubt I'll find another one like that.

Dude, it's the fart can you got on there! Take it off, all it does is attract the cops! :s

just take the fan off and lube it up with some lightweight oil. on the underside there should be a couple stickers that cover the mechanics. just put a little oil on the spindle and o-ring. the fan should spin more freely just by hand.

it can be easily prevented if you clean your case out regularly and the immediate area around the case. computers are dust traps.

I've looked under both stickers and its just plastic underneith... weird.

beleve it or not, you will need to remove the Fan from the HS to be able to lube it.

I did remove it you moron. Theres nothing under the stickers on each side.

Anyone I plugged in my TNT2 for now, so whatever.

Its a radeon 9000, honestly, it could run with no fan for a long ass time.. my 9000 pro waaay back had no fan, was just a super shitty heatsink.. it got hot as hell, but never died..

SOAPboy wrote:Its a radeon 9000, honestly, it could run with no fan for a long ass time.. my 9000 pro waaay back had no fan, was just a super shitty heatsink.. it got hot as hell, but never died..

That's kinda what I was getting at.

SOAPboy wrote:Its a radeon 9000, honestly, it could run with no fan for a long ass time.. my 9000 pro waaay back had no fan, was just a super shitty heatsink.. it got hot as hell, but never died..

Interesting. I carefully looked at mine, its capacitors are fine, one is a bit bloated though. I'm afraid that if I remove the fan it will all go to hell just like my motherboard did (remember when I took off the northbridge fan off my Gigabyte and the capacitors leaked which cause the thing to fuck off? yeah).

Considering you don't play games, you could get a decent replacement card really cheap.

ToxicBug wrote:I did remove it you moron. Theres nothing under the stickers on each side.

getting mouthy is not a way to get help... . i thaught we went over this?

AmIdYfReAk wrote:

ToxicBug wrote:I did remove it you moron. Theres nothing under the stickers on each side.

getting mouthy is not a way to get help... . i thaught we went over this?

He's incorrigible.

True,

also the funny part is that i have a saphire 9000 sitting here, i removed the fan from the HSF ( it is the ATI ref HSF btw ) and There is the port to lube it within plane sight.

i would say buy a New videocard or just replace the fan.

ToxicBug wrote:I did remove it you moron. Theres nothing under the stickers on each side.

Anyone I plugged in my TNT2 for now, so whatever.

Don't expect help if you're going to be ignorant towards people who are trying to help you.