Slaughter Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 This is what it looked like opening a system today. Can you find one hardware problem here? My father has used my younger brother's old PC for a while now. He is a walking disaster when it comes to using a PC, and as usual he had messed things up. Being home on vacation, I had to look at it as usual. The old goat said that he had been deleting some files to free space on C: for defrag. The same day the system started rebooting by itself, and the graphics was messed up. Doing some troubleshooting himself, he ended up turning off hardware acceleration and the likes (through tips from Help and support or something). Since then system has worked, but lagged when using Windows games etc. Showing me what he did, he got an error message on the NVidia control panel entering advanced graphics options. I therefore assumed that he had messed it up with deleting files, and thus caused BSODs that causes system reboot. Therefore I uninstalled the old graphics driver, and added the latest. System was unstable with graphical artifacts doing so however, so I decided to check out the card itself and reseat it. Opening up, I found this: As you can see the video card fan is trying to escape. In addition the motherboard fan was not spinning. NVidia chipset on the motherboard and NVidia graphics card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Haha, I'm searching for what's wrong in the first picture, and all of a sudden, I think: "Is it just the perspective or is that fan half way out?"The closeups show it far better, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Something else, too. How can the entire case be spotlessly clean, but the fans are so ridiculously dusty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Freedom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 *pictures Braveheart with a fan instead of Mel Gibson on his knees* "Freedom" Hehe, indeed Azrael @Matri: Good question! I guess the fans suck up all the dust. That's what they're there for, right? @Gimli: Think of the sound if it has actually shot out of it's socket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I've had my share of problems with fans, but nothing quite so extreme. The funny thing was, I took the graphics card back to the shop, and they replaced it with another one with a broken fan. Need I say more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knan Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Someone's probably been over it with a vacuum cleaner. That would account for the fans out of position, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I dunno, I used to vacuum fans. Sure, it wrecked the bearings, but it never pulled one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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