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clicks of death in new gp card fan?
Name: 3com Date: November 16, 2003 at 09:49:50 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+/51
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i hear this clicking in my new radeon 9600 card. im pretty sure it comes from it, or maybe it is my hard drive? i hear the clicks better when i stick my head next to where the graphics card is. if it's the hard drive, my case must have some strange acoustic "misplacement?" that will manipulate the clicks to be heard louder next to the graphics card. the graphics card is so new, and the hard drive is like the last thing i have left from the "packard bell" 4 years ago. what do you think, should i just ignore it?
Name: fgt67 Date: November 16, 2003 at 09:56:01 Pacific
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Why don't you open it up and have a look It's probably just a wire grinding in the fan.
Fans generally screw up, one of the fans in my computer sometimes makes a load grinding sound when I turn it on.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3com Date: November 16, 2003 at 10:00:38 Pacific
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There is nothing in the fan. it goes round pretty fast. i have also gotten a high grinding fan in my dual fan psu(cheapo), i just replaced them with ekl's.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave02 Date: November 16, 2003 at 10:04:15 Pacific
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Shut the system down and have a closer look at the fan on the video card. Rotate it by hand and see if you can feel it grabbing or it may be loose, ot the bearings may be going bad. Good Luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3com Date: November 16, 2003 at 10:06:14 Pacific
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im gonna try that in a second. b back later
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Response Number 5
Name: larry Date: November 16, 2003 at 10:34:19 Pacific
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Clicks are common symptoms of a dying hard drive. I've never heard of a clicking graphics card or fan.
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Response Number 6
Name: 3com Date: November 16, 2003 at 10:55:34 Pacific
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thank you very much larry! it makes sense it is the hard drive. It is a quantum fireball lct15 20 (19gb). its old. it have also started to take a longer time for bios to detect the disk. over and out.
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Response Number 7
Name: RobbieDickon Date: November 16, 2003 at 20:52:07 Pacific
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Name: 3com
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