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9800pro fan failed....help!

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Ingonuts13

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So i smelled some burning tonight while gaming so I immediately checked out my case to see if somethign was wrong. The fan on the GPU had failed....Yikes!

So i shut down the pc removed the heatsink and replaced it with a different one. When I re-booted the machine, windows comes up with all kinds of streaking and such. My question is, the card fubared?

Or is there something else I should be doing?
 
did you set the shim properly when you took off the other one and put the new one on?

(BTW, I've never owned an ATi card... but usually whenever something like this comes up, it has something to do with that shim:p
 
sorry to say but you made a mistake taking off the original HSF. You can RMA a card if the fan decides to die ( i have in the past) but they will not accept it if you don't have the original parts on the card. I would try putting the HFS back and make it look untampered w/ and RMA it. If the fan dies on a card and you SMELL something burning, that card is never gonna be the same anyway.
 
If your replacement HSF doesnt have the little "dip" on the underside to touch the core, you might not be making contact.

It's easy enough to just unscrew the "FAN" part of the original, and hotmelt glue a bigger fan on the heatsink....like a slow rpm 60mm fan from an AMD factory Athalon heatsink.

Or get a proper replacement HSF for it. I wouldnt RMA back the board over a failed fan, have ATI send you a replacement heatsink, or just the fan section.

Check your shim height, if it is higher than the core height, then you wont get contact with a flatbottom HSF. Use a credit card, lay it across the shim/core/shim, shine a flashlight from behind. If you see light coming under the ccard edge...you have a gap, and the heatsink wont be touching the core, and overheating and artifacts will ensue.
 
Originally posted by uwackme
If your replacement HSF doesnt have the little "dip" on the underside to touch the core, you might not be making contact.

It's easy enough to just unscrew the "FAN" part of the original, and hotmelt glue a bigger fan on the heatsink....like a slow rpm 60mm fan from an AMD factory Athalon heatsink.
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yeah, when the fan dies it's usually best just to replace the FAN...
but IMHO you should have RMA'd it when you smelt something burning because that was probably the card dying.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I am going to RMA this baby now. There is no gap as far as i can tell, so it must just be toast!
 
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