Can I replace the fan on my old GeForce card?

[jrstevan]

I have an old GeForce 2 card thats around 5 years old. The fan is loud as hell, and no matter what I do it won't stop. I know its a POS card, but it's just in an old computer. Do you think if I remove it, the chip will overheat? What is the cheapest way to fix it? Can I just get some little $2 fan online and stick it on there? Any help is greatly appreciated...

 

[Eureka]

If you remove the fan, the chip will definately overheat... I guess you could always replace it with an aftermaket cooler... don't know if a generic fan would work though.

Norm

 

[winr]

Have you oiled it?

You can remove the whole fan assembly itself and pop the blades out and put a tiny drop of oil in the hole the shaft came out of.

Pop the blades out by pushing on the round inner part not the blades themselves.

The fans are usually screwed on with tiny screws.

 

[dwcal]

A few ideas:

1. Remove the fan and leave the heatsink. Get a slot fan to blow on the heatsink.

2. Try scavenging old motherboards for a chipset heatsink. They often have the same mounting holes.

3. SVC has a clearance sale on NV Silencers for $9.99. http://svc.com/cardcooler.html

4. About the OP's idea. Yeah you could replace the fan with another one the same size, probably a 40mm.

 

[jrstevan]

On trying to remove the fan to oil it, I accidentally broke the wires leading to the fan! The computer has been running for several hours now, and no problems yet! I hope this works!

 

[IlllI]

removed = fried


you can probably replace it though


edit: if it works w/o one i'd periodically test it to see how how the hsf gets. i certainly would not leave it running for an extended amount of time or you risk damaging it

 

[jdw2]

Your video card should be fine without the fan. I have a Geforce2 as well as a Geforce4 currently running in 2 machines where the fans have died. All I did was a just take the fans off to give more breathing room on the heatsink. They have both been running fine for years now, including lots of gaming. Of course I could just be lucky.

 

[pukemon]

A chipset fan will probably fit, but the power connector probably won't - you'd probably have to plug it into the 3-pin motherboard connector. There usually is one near the AGP slot anyway.