Radeon 9700 Pro - noisy fan

[Kenchie]

My 7 month old Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro has suddenly developed a rather
irritating noisy cooling fan. I have taken it out and cleaned it, to no
avail.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a common fault? What should I do
about it?

TIA
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Kenchie
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[Mangyrat]

replace the fan. but first make shure its the video card fan. when its in
the system its hard to tell what fan is makeing the sound. it may be the cpu
cooling fan or a chipset fan.
i just had to replace all my case fans, i thought it was my video card fan
but it was the case fans and the sound was reverberating around in the case
so it was hard to pin point it.

my 9700pro fan is holding up great after a 2 years.
the only grafics card fan i had go bad was on a old gf 3 ti card. you can
remove it and peal the sticker off the back of it and put a drop of good oil
in it "not wd40 try 3 in 1 or some other oil" and it will last a while
longer.

when the fan fals its going to overhear your card fast and thats not good.

 

[Kenchie]

I put it to you, Mangyrat, that on Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:38:42 -0500 you

replace the fan. but first make shure its the video card fan. when its in
the system its hard to tell what fan is makeing the sound. it may be the cpu
cooling fan or a chipset fan.
i just had to replace all my case fans, i thought it was my video card fan
but it was the case fans and the sound was reverberating around in the case
so it was hard to pin point it.

my 9700pro fan is holding up great after a 2 years.
the only grafics card fan i had go bad was on a old gf 3 ti card. you can
remove it and peal the sticker off the back of it and put a drop of good oil
in it "not wd40 try 3 in 1 or some other oil" and it will last a while
longer.

when the fan fals its going to overhear your card fast and thats not good.

Thanks Mangy, that oiling tip did the trick!
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Kenchie
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[sentinel]

Hello, I had the same problem with my 9700 pro, I had to unscrew the fan and
clean the blades underneath, that fixed it. Hope that helps you.