Hello, Forum!
Today I was given a nVidia GeForce 9600GT which had a faulty fan, not much is known about it as it has been laid in a workshop for a long time, all I did know was the fan was seized solid. I managed to unstick the fan and re-assemble to unit, once I'd got it into my system and connected the PCI-e power cable I'd tried turning my system on but nothing happened. I checked to make sure that it was all correctly inserted into the mobo but my system just wouldn't turn on, then suddenly I pressed the power button again and a loud crack came and a flash came from the GPU unit and my system turned on, the display shown my BIOS loading, it started to get into Windows but then the screen just went black and my HDDs had gone quiet. I tried turning it off and on again and it just kept getting stuck at post, then I noticed the fan wasn't as "un-seized" so I disassembled the unit, fixed the fan and reconnected it but this time I got nothing, the system turned on, all drives running but no display. the fan is still moving freely but when the system is on the fan doesn't move even though I can now spin it with my finger. The only thing this is happening with the GPU is that it is getting hot near the PCI-e power connector.
Symptoms:
_Fri
Today I was given a nVidia GeForce 9600GT which had a faulty fan, not much is known about it as it has been laid in a workshop for a long time, all I did know was the fan was seized solid. I managed to unstick the fan and re-assemble to unit, once I'd got it into my system and connected the PCI-e power cable I'd tried turning my system on but nothing happened. I checked to make sure that it was all correctly inserted into the mobo but my system just wouldn't turn on, then suddenly I pressed the power button again and a loud crack came and a flash came from the GPU unit and my system turned on, the display shown my BIOS loading, it started to get into Windows but then the screen just went black and my HDDs had gone quiet. I tried turning it off and on again and it just kept getting stuck at post, then I noticed the fan wasn't as "un-seized" so I disassembled the unit, fixed the fan and reconnected it but this time I got nothing, the system turned on, all drives running but no display. the fan is still moving freely but when the system is on the fan doesn't move even though I can now spin it with my finger. The only thing this is happening with the GPU is that it is getting hot near the PCI-e power connector.
Symptoms:
- No display
- No GPU fan movement
- Rather hot near the PCI-e power connector
_Fri
