is this graphics card fan dead?

[hupjack]

I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
wobbling all over the place...

After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
suppose?

but it still sounds loud....

apply some lube?
or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
around again soon?

I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
model AP4505MX-g90
it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A

thanks for any insight you can offer

 

[JAD]

I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
wobbling all over the place...

After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
suppose?

but it still sounds loud....

apply some lube?
or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
around again soon?

I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
model AP4505MX-g90
it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A

thanks for any insight you can offer

This will come back to haunt you later. as long as the replacement fan can
be mounted to the HS, the voltage and wattage is pretty much moot. How is
it being powered?

 

[old jon]

I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
wobbling all over the place...

After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
suppose?

but it still sounds loud....

apply some lube?
or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
around again soon?

I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
model AP4505MX-g90
it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A

thanks for any insight you can offer

If the graphics card was only worth $5 nobody would worry, but we know
different,
get the $5 dollar fan !. Where ?. Any Computer Fair, or reputable supplier.
best wishes..OJ

 

[David Maynard]

I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
wobbling all over the place...

Shot fan bearings.

 

[First of One]

CT6810, that's a nVidia TNT2. Finding replacement fan by itself is
difficult. You can either buy an aftermarket heat sink/fan unit ($20-$30),
or remove the busted fan and zip-tie a 60 mm case fan to the heat sink.

A second-hand TNT2 is worth about $20-$30 nowadays on eBay, so buying a heat
sink for it may not be worthwhile.

 

[hupjack]

thanks for the feedback everybody.. I'll see what sort of el-cheapo
solutions I can find.

clearly blowing 20-30 on the card is a bad move, and it sounds like if
I just wait and see, this fan could stop spinning any moment now. I'm
a resourceful fellow, I'll come up with something. I like that zip tie
idea. I might just do that.