So yeah, basically the thread title.
I was playing Battlefield and suddenly the game starts lagging like fuck and then my PC crashes and beeps four times, 1x long, 3x short, which stands for GPU error in MoBo language and restarts.
So I tried the usual, use a high powered blowing thing used for grooming dogs and get all of that dust out of there and keeping an eye on my temps while playing.
I started playing BF3 again and after about half an hour it crashes again with the Temp at about 105°C.
I restart again and check if I accidentally kept my old OC settings but no, everything at normal.
So I started fiddling with my Fan settings in MSI Afterburner to see if I could get it to blow and sucks that GPU like a Taiwanese hooker.
From there my shit got fucked up, my fan started idling at 60RPM, goes up to about 1000RPM for a few secs and then drops down again all the while its doing weird vibration noises and generally sounds broken.
So yeah, atm I can browse the interwebs with my clocks all at about 70Mhz and my Temp at 55°C but needless to say I cant play anything with this, so anyone got a brilliant idea to get this going again or is it fucked and I will have to get a new one?
P.S. I just noticed it sounds like my fan has the hiccups huehuehueh.
Fuck
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I also get a heart attack every time my clocks jump up for a second to render shit on a webpage or something.
Goddamned.
Magically fixed itself.
I'd RMA the card lmao, that doesnt sound good.
It started again so I'm open for ideas again.
Cant return the card because no warranty.
Dicknipples.
Might need to oil the fans bearings.
I was thinking about doing that but isn't that kinda hard do to with a GPU fan since it has that plastic casing around everything and I'm not sure if I can take it off.
tiny screw drivers and lots of patience.
It sounds like the GPU fan power cable is falling out or or losing connection somehow. Check the cable and see if there's any noticeable tears and make sure it's tightly secured into the slot. This happened to my GF's 4850 as well.
God damned, everything is breaking now fuck!
[THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/VKhdc.jpg[/THUMB]
[editline]13th November 2012[/editline]
Oh God is that picture only huge for me or what.
Help
There we go.
Okay, by putting the PC on its side and watching closely with a flashlight I found out that the fan is kind of wobbling forward and backwards occasionally while spinning, which also causes some weird noises I misinterpreted as the fan needing lubricants.
So is it possible to like "re-seat" the fan, or is it fucked?
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Have a video showing what my fan is doing all day:
[video=youtube;sWJC4VMIkbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJC4VMIkbE[/video]
Try emailing the card maker's (ZOTAC, MSI, etc) with your model and see if they have the answers, someone else may have had the same error
did you ever do what I said?
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I think the 'wobbling' is just the fan kicking on and off. When it turns off it's no longer pulling air in so it settles. When it's on the fan is sorta propelling itself outward. It's hard to explain but it makes sense.
Looks like the fan blade came loose from the rotor. See if you can pull it off and glue it back on. Or the bearings could be blown to hell but the former is more likely.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;38441946]did you ever do what I said?
[editline]13th November 2012[/editline]
I think the 'wobbling' is just the fan kicking on and off. When it turns off it's no longer pulling air in so it settles. When it's on the fan is sorta propelling itself outward. It's hard to explain but it makes sense.[/QUOTE]
No, the wobbling is happening because the sleeve bearing inside the fan is destroyed. Basically what happens is the oil/grease lubricant inside the fan eventually reaches the end of its useful life and the friction of the fan shaft rotating heats up and burns the lubricant until it turns into carbon dust.
The process happens gradually so the bits of carbon grind the sleeve bearing and the fan shaft until they're so far out of tolerance that the fan shaft just rides around the walls of the sleeve and won't allow the fan to spin.
The only way to fix this problem is to find a replacement fan (probably impossible since GPU fans are usually custom built for the application) or to buy a new heatsink/fan assembly from someplace like Newegg.
Did you by any chance spin the fan at high speeds using the compressed air? Because this will seriously fuck it up.
Also: If you remove the heatsink, remember that you will also have to re-apply the thermal paste.
[QUOTE=taipan;38447204]Did you by any chance spin the fan at high speeds using the compressed air? Because this will seriously fuck it up.[/QUOTE]
Overspinning a fan will reduce the life of the lubricant, but in most cases it won't immediately harm the fan.
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