I had a fan go out on my Geforce2 mx which was causing my video to do bizarre things. I replaced the fan on it with a bitter one and used some thermal glue and I haven't had problems with it since. My replacement fan doesn't use the fan power on the chip, it uses power from the MotherBoard like CPU fans. Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: Rohit [mailto:rohits@mahindrabt.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:08 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] [bit OT] NVIDIA fan problem
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, O'Smith wrote:
Have you tried NVidia's site to either download a manual or view the specs for that card?
Yes. I tried all the help from them but realised that they did not specify about the fan.
I finally took my card out and looked at it. The fan was HOT after a night's uptime on my machine. Thank God the chip has not blown yet. Tried rotating the fan manually, it was really hard to do it. I am sure a motor could not have moved the fan by itself. Surprisingly the motor is on even now. Just that it fails to move the fan.
I am looking for a replacement. I think that I have been lucky so far, not having pushed that card too much without the fan. Thanks for the inputs, all.
Rohit
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I had a fan go out on my Geforce2 mx which was causing my video to do bizarre things. I replaced the fan on it with a bitter one and used some thermal glue and I haven't had problems with it since. My replacement fan doesn't use the fan power on the chip, it uses power from the MotherBoard like CPU fans.
you had a fan on your gf2mx? odd.. that was one of the (many) things i liked about upgrading from a tnt2 ultra to the gf2mx. not only was it faster and with better 3d, but it was also quieter becuase it only needed a heat sink. -- trey
Trey Gruel wrote:
I had a fan go out on my Geforce2 mx which was causing my video to do bizarre things. I replaced the fan on it with a bitter one and used some thermal glue and I haven't had problems with it since. My replacement fan doesn't use the fan power on the chip, it uses power from the MotherBoard like CPU fans.
you had a fan on your gf2mx? odd.. that was one of the (many) things i liked about upgrading from a tnt2 ultra to the gf2mx. not only was it faster and with better 3d, but it was also quieter becuase it only needed a heat sink.
Why "odd"? The Geforce2 MX which I have on the other computer has a fan - came with the card. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
you had a fan on your gf2mx? odd.. that was one of the (many) things i liked about upgrading from a tnt2 ultra to the gf2mx. not only was it faster and with better 3d, but it was also quieter becuase it only needed a heat sink.
Why "odd"? The Geforce2 MX which I have on the other computer has a fan - came with the card.
which gf2mx was it? i know several people who got gf2mx cards when they came out and none of them had fans (i ended up installing almost all of them). those were all first gen gf2mxs (a couple even w/ ddr ram).. maybe they added a fan for the mx400? -- trey
Trey Gruel wrote:
you had a fan on your gf2mx? odd.. that was one of the (many) things i liked about upgrading from a tnt2 ultra to the gf2mx. not only was it faster and with better 3d, but it was also quieter becuase it only needed a heat sink.
Why "odd"? The Geforce2 MX which I have on the other computer has a fan - came with the card.
which gf2mx was it? i know several people who got gf2mx cards when they came out and none of them had fans (i ended up installing almost all of them). those were all first gen gf2mxs (a couple even w/ ddr ram).. maybe they added a fan for the mx400?
The card I am talking about certainly is a MX400 so maybe the fans were introduced with this model. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
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