video card making noise

[attilathehun1]

I have an ATI Fire GL X1 AGP Pro graphics card and the fan is making noise.
In fact it's been making noise now for almost a year, but it used to be just
when I started it after it had been shut down for a while. Now, it's doing it
constantly. If you can take a look at it on ATI's website, what do you think
about taking the fan off and replacing it with a Zalman GPU fan. Or is it
possible to do that with this card?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

 

[Malke]

I have an ATI Fire GL X1 AGP Pro graphics card and the fan is making
noise.
In fact it's been making noise now for almost a year, but it used to be
just when I started it after it had been shut down for a while. Now, it's
doing it constantly. If you can take a look at it on ATI's website, what
do you think about taking the fan off and replacing it with a Zalman GPU
fan. Or is it possible to do that with this card?

You should ask this in a hardware group or forum, probably one focused on
ATI. This has nothing to do with Windows XP or Microsoft products.

This Google search produced a lot of likely looking places:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ATI+hardware+forums&btnG=Google+Search

Malke

 

[Andrew E.]

Remove fan from card,access the fan axle,remove the plastic bushing(s),
remove fan rotor,clean parts with rubbing alcohol.Reasemble & lightly
coating with auto grease or auto engine oil (use sparingly),once thru,chk the
fan rotation,install to card.