I bought a brand new GeForce 9500 GT graphics card (Low profile) in December. It just arrived last night. I installed it in my dell gx620 SFF computer. It's windows 7 32 bit with 3.4 processor.
Started playing the sims 3 last night, 30 minutes in I get a black screen, background music continues playing. I pull the case off with it still running and I can see the fan struggling to spin. I touched it with a pencil and it resumed spinning. Restarted. The problem continues. Sometimes the pencil trick works and others it doesn't.
Downloaded cpuid's HWmonitor and it showed the nvidia card sitting at 104C. I look at the fan, it's not spinning. I got it to spin and the temps are slowly dropping. But the problem just continues. This was a BRAND NEW card not even a day old. I'm very confident that it's not something I did during the installation. I have the same model graphics card in my other computer (not the low profile model though) and have never had any issues like this.
I read to put a drop of oil in the fan or the bearing in another thread.. what kind of oil do I need? Or am I better off just buying a lower quality 128 MB (min requirement for my game) that doesn't use a fan?
Also my power supply is 275w. Could this be part of the problem? Just asking because I don't really know what a computer would do if it's trying to use more power than it's capable.
Started playing the sims 3 last night, 30 minutes in I get a black screen, background music continues playing. I pull the case off with it still running and I can see the fan struggling to spin. I touched it with a pencil and it resumed spinning. Restarted. The problem continues. Sometimes the pencil trick works and others it doesn't.
Downloaded cpuid's HWmonitor and it showed the nvidia card sitting at 104C. I look at the fan, it's not spinning. I got it to spin and the temps are slowly dropping. But the problem just continues. This was a BRAND NEW card not even a day old. I'm very confident that it's not something I did during the installation. I have the same model graphics card in my other computer (not the low profile model though) and have never had any issues like this.
I read to put a drop of oil in the fan or the bearing in another thread.. what kind of oil do I need? Or am I better off just buying a lower quality 128 MB (min requirement for my game) that doesn't use a fan?
Also my power supply is 275w. Could this be part of the problem? Just asking because I don't really know what a computer would do if it's trying to use more power than it's capable.
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