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Crap! My computer sounds like a toy airplane.

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cityboy-stl

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A couple of days ago it started making a loud buzzing sound. :cry:It sounds like one of those old motorized toy airplanes that you used to have when you were a kid. Well, maybe not quite that loud. Anyway, it's the fan on video card making the noise. I don't suppose spraying some WD40 or something on the rotor would be a good idea. Is there anyway to fix/replace the fan or am I just stuck buying a new video card? The fan still works btw, it just makes this God awful noise.
 
Sounds to me like you've a fan going bad.

Open up the case and see if you can isolate which fan is making the noise. Replace as needed.

Or you can do like I do: kick the bloody thing until the noise stops =]
 
i have no clue what wd40 is (oil?) but did you already try to dedust it?
 
i have used WD-40 sparingly on both my case fan and my CPU fan. haven't tried it on the video card yet, but then again mine doesn't have a fan. lol so that tells you what kind of card i have. lol i think i would try a small amount on your video card fan and see if it helps. i think you can also try replacing the fan. i don't think you'll need a whole new card.
 
My workstation has a bad fan in it... Err, has for some time... It whines every time i start it up (or when it gets really cold), i just bang the top of the tower really hard and it stops ;).

Though i don't recommend doing that unless you're a trained computer professional, like me. ;) I.E. unless you fully realize how stupid, dumb, and dangerous it is to do that, and fully comprehend and accept the possible consequences of said banging.
 
i agree. a hard slap on the tower often helps if you know how to do it. so don't sue us when your harddrive suddenly has surface errors etc ;).

nah .. wd40 i'm not sure if it is even sold here? maybe in DIY shops. i use silicone spray or graphite (do not use this for computers!) for most mechanic stuff that's not running smooth.
 
My philosophy: if a hammer can't fix it, it ain't broke.

:)
 
^^ And people, too!

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looseliam said:
My philosophy: if a hammer can't fix it, it ain't broke.

:)
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Ahhh quite similar to mine Liam..."A hammer can fix anything." Actually the same just worded differently. My harddrive makes a racket when I powerup my Dell. Crappy IBM HD. Third one but this one has lasted (so far) for years.
 
Diodorus said:
. My harddrive makes a racket when I powerup my Dell. Crappy IBM HD. Third one but this one has lasted (so far) for years.
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See my posting in Backup Your Stuff ! Your HD is giving you the Kiss of Death !! Make a back up now! Wish I had taken notice of the warning !!
 
Getting back to the original topic cityboy-stl posted, lol...

I used to repair video cards all the time. My last job I was supposed to be a server and network admin, but kept other tasks, such as fixing the higher end PCs when they did odd things. The company went cheap and bought a bunch of cheap video cards and a handful of their fans did what yours did. It was the motor going bad. In fact, the fans would stop rotating on some of them and a few of the cards where this happened had their GPU (the processor the fan is cooling) melt and flake out.

I much prefer passive cooling systems, but sometimes the fans are unavoidable. If there's one on the card, it needs to be running.

I've replaced fans on these before, but that was only because I had compatible parts on hand. I'm not sure how you would go about getting these parts unless you went to a PC repair shop, and if they are anything like the ones in my part of the US, they'd screw you over any chance they get!

Have you worked with electronics much before, other than PCs?

Yes, do what Random dude suggested and take a picture of it, if you can.
 
Well, I did not try the WD40. I took the somewhat brute force approach but not a hammer. I stopped the fan with my finger briefly and sort of pushed on the blades and the rotor a few times. That seemed to reposition it a little and it has been quiet for the last week or so. The fan blades may have just been hitting the side of the casing causing the noise. I have no idea if this will last but so far it seems OK. It will probably break again tomorrow with my luck. It's an NVidia GeForce2 MX400 card that is about 6 years old btw. I have not worked with electronics on the repair level but I did build the PC myself. I'm a programmer.
 
I'm jinxed. No sooner that I posted the above message than a couple hours later it starts making noise again.
 
I wouldn't recommend it mike_n_herrin, but I use to do it all the time. It's very likely that buzzing noise is bad ball bearings in the fan. You can spin it up again which will give you another random amount of silence, but it's going to keep happening. The only way to fix it is ro replace the fan.
 
personally, I would get a new video card and keep this one as a backup. It might give you 20 minutes, which is enough to test in the future in case another video problem happens.

Go out and get a replacement ASAP
 
My computer does a buzzing sound too. Apparently, a capacitor on the motherboard is slightly broken and I would have to replace the whole board :cry:
 
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