Chocobo
Member 1808
Level 9.89
Mar 2006
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May 13, 2006, 06:21 AM
Local time: May 13, 2006, 11:21 AM
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Yes, the fan on your graphics card must be spinning at all times.
If the graphics card is a cheap one, the fan could well be sleeve bearing rather than 2-ball bearing. (You can check by looking at the fan.) These cheaper sleeve bearing fans will generally fail before ball bearing fans, as the lubricant is finite and will be used up very quickly under hot conditions within a computer. If there are no dust obstructing the fan, and the fan is sleeve bearing; then all the lubricant has probably been used up. You can try to add lubricant to the fan, but it would be much easier to replace the fan altogether.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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