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- Jun 14, 2004
I think I made this in the right forum..
I have a Radeon 9800xt made by sapphire. I have had it for about 6 months or so. I leave my computer on 24/7 with the occasional reboot. I come home from work today and it is off, I assume power went out and turn it back on. I notice that it is making some nasty noises, sounds like the hard drive is grinding, upon further inspection it was the fan on my video card. It was spinning very slowly and sounded like it was rubbing on something. I turn off the comp so I dont damage anything (boot up screen was showing on monitor at this point, so the card still works). I take the card out and try to spin the fan by hand, it makes the same grinding type noise. If I spin it very slowly it doesnt make any noise and spns freely, but when I spin it fast it grinds/feels like it is catching on something. It is a little dusty, but not too much that I would worry about.
I am not wanting to take it apart to see what is up for fear of voiding any warranty it may have. I bought it through Newegg.com and bought the extended (3 year?) warranty.
I dont know much about computers, but I know just enough to get into trouble.
My voltages have all been very stable and very close to what they should be
System specs-
P4 3.0Ghz, OC'd to 3.3Ghz (big Zalman HS)
Sapphire 9800xt (duh)
Asus p4c800e-deluxe mobo
1Gig Corsair xms platinum series ram
200Gb Western Digital HD
Forget brand of PS. but it is very good, 450W, two fans
Plenty of case cooling
Not sure if anyone has any advice? What should I do? Any other questions feel free to ask, and if you need to ask someting like "was your power button turned on", go for it, I wont get insulted.
I have a Radeon 9800xt made by sapphire. I have had it for about 6 months or so. I leave my computer on 24/7 with the occasional reboot. I come home from work today and it is off, I assume power went out and turn it back on. I notice that it is making some nasty noises, sounds like the hard drive is grinding, upon further inspection it was the fan on my video card. It was spinning very slowly and sounded like it was rubbing on something. I turn off the comp so I dont damage anything (boot up screen was showing on monitor at this point, so the card still works). I take the card out and try to spin the fan by hand, it makes the same grinding type noise. If I spin it very slowly it doesnt make any noise and spns freely, but when I spin it fast it grinds/feels like it is catching on something. It is a little dusty, but not too much that I would worry about.
I am not wanting to take it apart to see what is up for fear of voiding any warranty it may have. I bought it through Newegg.com and bought the extended (3 year?) warranty.
I dont know much about computers, but I know just enough to get into trouble.
My voltages have all been very stable and very close to what they should be
System specs-
P4 3.0Ghz, OC'd to 3.3Ghz (big Zalman HS)
Sapphire 9800xt (duh)
Asus p4c800e-deluxe mobo
1Gig Corsair xms platinum series ram
200Gb Western Digital HD
Forget brand of PS. but it is very good, 450W, two fans
Plenty of case cooling
Not sure if anyone has any advice? What should I do? Any other questions feel free to ask, and if you need to ask someting like "was your power button turned on", go for it, I wont get insulted.