Fan on Visiontek GF3 Ti200 is failing

[bsauerbr]

While preparing to blow the dust out of my rig, I noticed that the fan on my vid card was spinning very slowly. Upon closer inspection, the fan would stop for a second then limp around for a second, then stop again, then spin kinda slow, then stop, etc. etc. I cleaned up the case with compressed air and even pulled the vid card and gave it special treatment but no luck. It still does the same thing.

I've filled out a Visiontek Support form online to see what they can do since it has a lifetime warranty.

This is one of the Best Buy $99 after rebate cards from Black Friday 2001. Anybody else have the fan go out on this card?

Any other ideas?

 

[Sachmho]

sounds like its dead. just get a crystal orb and slap that one on for better cooling. shouldn't be more than $10

 

[podingX]

i found the crystal orb to be really noisy even at 28dbs since it creates a higher pitched sound, even when i ran it at 7 volts. my visiontek fan broke a couple weeks ago and i ended emailing visiontek. supposedly, they're sending me a new stock fan. you might want to try that also

 

[YeloAggie]

i dont know...that crystal orbs sound mighty tempting.

 

[bsauerbr]

Originally posted by: podingX
i ended emailing visiontek. supposedly, they're sending me a new stock fan. you might want to try that also

That is the same response I got from Visiontek Friday morning. The fan is in the mail........

I figure I can't endanger my lifetime warranty if they expect me to replace the fan. So I ordered a Crystal Orb and will keep the stock fan if I ever have to send the whole card back.

 

[hans007]

my friends' gf3 ti200 fan was like that too. he got it during that thanksgiving sale at best buy also. he unscrewed the fan, just put some wd40 on it, and it was working fine again.

 

[mdcrab]

VisionTek provides very good support. On my GF3Ti200 the fan went out and they sent a new fan right out. A month later the whole card stopped working. Got an RMA number via e-mail. Sent it in and they replaced it. It appears the VisionTek GF3Ti200 fans have a very high failure rate!

Also found a very helpful utility as far as installing GF cards called "Detonator Destroyer". When installing the latest Detonator drivers use this program to remove all previous traces of old Detonator drivers. It can be found by running a search for "Detonator Destroyer" on Google.

mdcrab