Help a friend with a busted HSF?

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A friend of mine is having some problems with the stock fan on his 6600GT.

This is what he says:
friend said:
I run a NVidia 6600 GT from MSI. It's PCI-E. The cooling fan is stuck, so the card overheats frequently (it runs from 80-87 degrees C while idle.) So, it seems that replacing the fan and heatsink would be the solution, but i've never done that before. Any other suggestions?
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But let me clarify a bit. He's got a pre-built sony something desktop w/ a 6600GT in it. For an unknown reason the fan stopped working. He cleaned it out the best he could, no luck. He checked the card to make sure it was fitted in correctly, and the gpu had power. No fan. Under strenuous activity, the card just overheats, and freezes up. As he said it runs super hot (obviously.. no fan workage) when doing 'nothing' tasks.

Any ideas before I make him by a NV6 Silencer or something? We're currently in different states and stuff so i couldn't do it for him, and he's never done anything like that.

Something he should check that i might have missed?
 
Can he still RMA it?If so do he will geta new card. If he doesn't want to wait get a Zalman gpu cooler. It dropped my 6800 temps 15 degrees and cools the ram.
 
chck the warranty or just call or write MSI.It should be under warranty still. And if not refer to second post :p
 
just back the littl screww outa bit on the shroud and pull back on it to allow the fan to turn.
 
slickmitch said:
Can he still RMA it?If so do he will geta new card. If he doesn't want to wait get a Zalman gpu cooler. It dropped my 6800 temps 15 degrees and cools the ram.
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Got a Zalman on my 6600GT. Awesome heatsink. Keeps the core nice and cool, even when I clock it up to the point where I hit a wall... considering looking into vmoding it to get some higher clocks, since temps are fine.
To the OP: Your friend could use this as an excuse to upgrade the cooling, though if its under warranty I would get an RMA - we've all read the stories of how someone rma's a 9800Pro and gets an X800, or a 6800GT for a 6600 etc :p
 
spend three bux on a case fan and direct it at the vid card and plug it in.
problem solved and surely he wont break anything doing that.
 
Hey guys. This is my video card that my buddy was nice enough to post about last night. I noticed it was having trouble with the heat a few days ago, when games started getting unusually choppy. So, I pulled the card out to clean out the bit of dust that was in there (my house has a pretty bad dust problem.) As I was air cleaning, I noticed the fan wasn't spinning. It doesn't appear to be broken, but it is wobbly to the touch. I'll try to mess with the screw some, and see if that helps out any. If not, I'll move on to getting a new heatsink/fan combo. Any others I should keep an eye out for, other than the Silencer and Zalman?
 
-Dragon said:
Hey guys. This is my video card that my buddy was nice enough to post about last night. I noticed it was having trouble with the heat a few days ago, when games started getting unusually choppy. So, I pulled the card out to clean out the bit of dust that was in there (my house has a pretty bad dust problem.) As I was air cleaning, I noticed the fan wasn't spinning. It doesn't appear to be broken, but it is wobbly to the touch. I'll try to mess with the screw some, and see if that helps out any. If not, I'll move on to getting a new heatsink/fan combo. Any others I should keep an eye out for, other than the Silencer and Zalman?
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As was mentioned earlier, try to check out your warranty, and give the manufacturer a call. Otherwise, it sounds like a vf700-cu is in your future.
 
Well, all seems well now. The fan was certainly busted (as soon as I took it off, a huge whiff of fried wires overcame me.) I picked up a case fan and mounted it opposite the heat sink, and now I run 27 degrees C less in game than i was when idle. Thanks for your help ;)
 
Let me add, since he's not in a custom box but a retail unit, he didn't think a zalman would fit in his limited space on his board so he went for a different solution. I told him to open the case and put an old huge box fan there, but he opted for a small case fan :p
 
MSI has a 3-year warranty on all their video cards and motherboards.
 
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