Fan Crapping Out?

[WC Annihilus]

Yep, I think my GPU fan is calling it quits At least twice now in the past 24 hours my computer froze up and when I looked inside, the LEDs on my card were out. I couldn't actually see the fan since another fan is in the way, so I can't be sure. Or maybe the whole card is slowly dying... Anyways, the problem is... well, I'm sure you can guess (after all, where are we? ) So I'm kinda out of sorts of what I should do, whether I should try to RMA or not. Note that soon (once I get a cooler) I will be putting in a new card and this old one will be going into the family computer, so I have to make sure it's going to work out all right before then.

 

[Ham]

Stick a VF900 on it tbh.

 

[FarFarAway]

If you can do then RMA it

 

[Allsorts]

Are you able to monitor the temperature of your GPU? (i.e. through the Display or NVIDIA icons in the Control Panel) If so how high is the temperature at idle & under load? That might tell you if there is a problem with your GPU fan.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Well, now I'm really at a loss at what the problem is/was. I came home from school on Thursday to find that my video card wasn't working on boot. Before, when it froze, I could get it to boot up again, though I had to truly turn it off instead of a restart. This time, though it just wouldn't work. So I reseated it, and voila, it worked fine. Haven't had any of the "no fan" problem in 3 days (then again, near as I know it only happened twice). Unfortunately, I still got the occasional freeze. So I figured out that I was clocking my RAM past its limits as it wasn't able to pass SuperPI 32M. Clocked it down (and decided to go back 3 ghz ) no more freezeups during the day. For some reason, when I leave my computer on overnight to fold, I wake up to find that video is gone, the fan is back at top speed, and when I restart my FSB has gone down to 200!! I really have no bloody clue what is up, whether it be memory, motherboard, or GPU, since as I mentioned it works perfectly fine during the day Well, we'll see whether it does this again tonight.

 

[NickS]

Wow, that's odd! Reset to default settings in BIOS and either re-flash, or see if theres a newer BIOS

Almost sounds like PSU though... from what you said it makes it seem like you only fold @ night, so that would be directly linked to increase power load.

 

[deathwish]

it could just be your monitors going to sleep and and not refreshing when you move the mouse i have seen it happen before try a different monitor or turn off power saveing

 

[Ham]

Sounds like you Ram may be overheating to me. Very rare i know, but it does happen.

The fact that downclocking it helped makes me think that. You have a thermal probe you can use to check the temps on it?

 

[NickS]

RAM overheating causing a black screen? Huh?

 

[llwyd]

Has done for me, caused all kinds of funkyness

 

[WC Annihilus]

Just to say, I fold all day, so your guess probably isn't right nick. Also, again, this only happens at night which is the coldest time, so I really don't see how my RAM could be overheating then if it doesn't during the day.

Keep the suggestions coming. I mean, I could always just turn off my computer at night, but it really would be nice to be able to fold during that time.

 

[Nagaru]

What are your power settings? Maybe it could be that the machine is trying to standby and is not managing to come out of it.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Hmm, I don't find that too likely as I know I've had at least 3 nights (when I first started folding again) where it made it through. So unless something changed without me knowing (I suppose that could be likely ) that shouldn't be the case.