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Answer» Hello everyone, I have a problem with my other desktop tower's video graphics card. It seems to have malfunctioned. It is fairly old, being an XPS 630i. The main problem is: the video graphics card that is inside it is VERY loud, and sounds like a lawnmower. It never stops, and is really disturbing. I also enjoy playing games, but whenever I play on it, the screen eventually turns black. I can't restore any type of video unless I restart the computer, which quickly, (when running games only) will shut off. Can anyone tell me if my video graphics card is the problem? or if it is anything else? My video graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTS 240. I have attached the computer specs. Feel free to ask any QUESTIONS for clarifications. Hello everyone, I have a problem with my other desktop tower's video graphics card. It seems to have malfunctioned. It is fairly old, being an XPS 630i. The main problem is: the video graphics card that is inside it is VERY loud, and sounds like a lawnmower. It never stops, and is really disturbing. I also enjoy playing games, but whenever I play on it, the screen eventually turns black. I can't restore any type of video unless I restart the computer, which quickly, (when running games only) will shut off. Can anyone tell me if my video graphics card is the problem? or if it is anything else? My video graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTS 240. I have attached the computer specs. Feel free to ask any questions for clarifications. Greetings. First off, in computer terms id say its an older machine. However its a Core 2 Quad which is and can be still quite peppy. Its a Quad Core unit. Im replying to you now on a Core 2 Duo Machine. Its from the same line up but my machine is only a dual core and it still does just fine. With older machines temperatures is something to be careful about. In this case I'd say either the driver is having issues or the card (most likely this one) is overheating. If you can download HWmonitor (ill post a link below) and look at the GPU temperatures in the list. This piece of software will monitor temps and display them to you where ever there is a temp sensor. Usually id say 80's in celcius is a bit high. If the program fails to show a temp PERHAPS the temperature sensor on the card has failed and hence why fans are nuts. If the cards temps are pretty high say high 70s 80s 90s even on system idle, you could repaste the card if youre comfortable doing that. If not ask a friend who is capable or upgrade the card. There could possibly just be too much dust in the computer and no airflow causing temperatures to increase. Or finally the card is in fact failing. link to hardware monitors PAGE: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html Most likely the heatsink is caked with dust. My 9800GT had the same issue. Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 26, 2016, 01:33:19 PM Most likely the heatsink is caked with dust. My 9800GT had the same issue. Thats a possibility too. Perhaps i went a little overboard. My current gaming rig has a MSI R6870 and it got to 92c playing GTA V. I cleaned off the dust (very little in my situation) REMOVED the heat sink and re-pasted it. Put it back together and found now playing GTA V my temps moderate around 75c. A 17c difference. GRANTED the highest ive seen it spike is 82c now but still is a difference from 92. OP i would start with just a dust clean with an air can (holding the fan in place to avoid bearing issues from too must pressurized air coming through) and also installing latest driver version. Remove the card...and do a careful thorough cleaning. |
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