BleepingComputer.com: possible video card problem

there is a bright side,


back in 09-2009 i had a heat driven shutdown problem much like our fellow laptop users. PC would just randomly power down from heat, back then i thought it had to be clogged fans, so i went shopping. turned out, my system fan is a three pin getup connected to mobo, chip fan is the same, just smaller mm. back then all of the fans that were available in stores was of 4 pin configuration, i panicked. turned out to be the usual cheap oem psu being underpowered and worn out (300w), fixed myself right up with a nice aftermarket psu (430w thermaltake) and back in business at my workstation after psu install. but as i saw that three pin fans were extinct, i cleaned the goop really good out of the 3 pin fans my system came with, thinking those fans were the last of their kind unless you surrendered CC info out in the open at net sites. now i see three pin fans are coming back to surface in retail outlets, which is kind of refreshing . i also learned of the trade-off between cfm and dba in the fan market. thanks again everyone.

ok, got a couple screen grabs from speccy and cpuid, hope this helps clarify more than verbiage. i did notice the gpu fan isn't turning. i hear a subtle click from time to time that may be the gpu fan turning on.

if your GPU fan isnt turning on, even when its running hot, then my guess is its defective and you should probably RMA the card. (also whats likely running your system and CPU temps up) though, from those screen shots those temps arnt in the red-yet anyway, for idle their a bit high but not dangerously so.

do some gpu fans idle until over 50-60 c? that is what i was thinking. i will look that one up. i did notice the boot drive c: hovering in the red zone around 60 c also, my other drive is around 43 c. going to be defragmenting c: tonight. might be time to start a new hdd cooling technique and effort thread. i read how hdd failure dilemmas pop up all the time. almost assuredly due to excess heat, in my estimation. hdd is a magnetic media, after all.

no they shouldnt, and if you hear a clicking noise that may very well be it trying to start and failing. To be sure you can try downloading rivatuner and using it to manually turn the fan up. Though, im fairly certain from the sounds of it its not working properly.