I'm reinstalling and after I got the drivers for my Physx card installed I ran a diagnostics on it and while it saw the card the tests were timing out.
I pulled the card and as I did so the top half of the fan (the plastic bit with the blades and ring hub) fell off so sometime in the last month while I was troubleshooting it died and the card has had no cooling at all (though thankfully, most of that time the system was off). I would say the card is dead but Windows and the Nvidia driver still detect it however it does not respond. I can't really replace the fan as it's built into the heatsink and I got nothing to substitute the heatink with.
Does anyone know if the card supported on-chip thermal protection? If it is than that explains why it's doing nothing, it's not allowing anything to happen as it's too hot.
If you have a spare laptop laying around, use the CPU heatsink/fan from it. It should fit since they are normally around the same size.
Sorry but I don't have any laptops from this century that actually need a fan. Almost all my laptops are passive.
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