Monday, March 17, 2003
There's a first time for everything!!
Or so they say, so this afternoon I took apart my GF4 Ti4200 GFX card.
Not just for the crack, I didn't just think "let's see if we can fook up a 200 quid card". My computer has been getting steadily louder over the last few months. I opened it up last night and gave all the fans a very light oiling on their spindles and cleaned all the crap that gets on them from smoking at the pc.
Still noisy. So today I opened it up and plugged it back in again (nervously, I don't like lectric) and had a listen.
PSU fan? Nope, Proc fan? Nope, Additional cooling fan? Nope. Shitty little fan on my GFX card? Could be!
So, whipped it out (the card), took off the fan guard, took the little fan off, cleaned it all, replaced fan, did *not* replace fan guard, moved a couple of other cards down a slot, just in case, fired the bitch up.
Blissful silence.
I know this might not mean much to others but for a complete hardware n00b I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself
K.
Or so they say, so this afternoon I took apart my GF4 Ti4200 GFX card.
Not just for the crack, I didn't just think "let's see if we can fook up a 200 quid card". My computer has been getting steadily louder over the last few months. I opened it up last night and gave all the fans a very light oiling on their spindles and cleaned all the crap that gets on them from smoking at the pc.
Still noisy. So today I opened it up and plugged it back in again (nervously, I don't like lectric) and had a listen.
PSU fan? Nope, Proc fan? Nope, Additional cooling fan? Nope. Shitty little fan on my GFX card? Could be!
So, whipped it out (the card), took off the fan guard, took the little fan off, cleaned it all, replaced fan, did *not* replace fan guard, moved a couple of other cards down a slot, just in case, fired the bitch up.
Blissful silence.
I know this might not mean much to others but for a complete hardware n00b I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself
K.
