is this graphics card fan dead?

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I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
wobbling all over the place...

After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
suppose?

but it still sounds loud....

apply some lube?
or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
around again soon?

I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
model AP4505MX-g90
it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A

thanks for any insight you can offer

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<hupjack@excite.com> wrote in message
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>I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
> card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
> wobbling all over the place...
>
> After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
> fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
> I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
> and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
> suppose?
>
> but it still sounds loud....
>
> apply some lube?
> or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
> should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
> around again soon?
>
> I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
> The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
> model AP4505MX-g90
> it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A
>
> thanks for any insight you can offer
>
If the graphics card was only worth $5 nobody would worry, but we know
different,
get the $5 dollar fan !. Where ?. Any Computer Fair, or reputable supplier.
best wishes..OJ

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CT6810, that's a nVidia TNT2. Finding replacement fan by itself is
difficult. You can either buy an aftermarket heat sink/fan unit ($20-$30),
or remove the busted fan and zip-tie a 60 mm case fan to the heat sink.

A second-hand TNT2 is worth about $20-$30 nowadays on eBay, so buying a heat
sink for it may not be worthwhile.

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<hupjack@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1123056286.686543.105410@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I was just re-doing a hosed PC for a buddy, and I noticed his graphics
> card fan sounded mighty loud.. Then I looked closer and found it was
> wobbling all over the place...
>
> After I unscrewed the fan from the heatsink, I found you could pull the
> fan away from it's rear "houseing", but that nothing looked "broken"..
> I pushed the fan back against it's housing, and it felt like it mated,
> and it's nore really flopping around.. Just a minor compression fit I
> suppose?
>
> but it still sounds loud....
>
> apply some lube?
> or was this thing never supposed to come loose from the backing, and I
> should consider it dead and likely to be falling loose and flopping
> around again soon?
>
> I'd go pickup a replacement $5 dollar fan if I knew where to get one..
> The graphics card is a creative labs CT6810, and its fan says its a
> model AP4505MX-g90
> it wants DC 9V and a whopping 0.09A
>
> thanks for any insight you can offer
>