I snapped a wire on my Graphics Card Fan

[chubbyfatazn]

is the white cable that attaches the fan to the fan header important? i was using pliers and i got distracted by something and i snapped the cable. i soldered it back together.

recently the video flickered randomly, with the screen going blank sometimes. a few days ago the video would not show up at all, so i swapped out my x1900 for a spare fx5200 and wham the video comes back. dunno if this is a catalyst 6.9 driver problem (its rly buggy and it caused me to have to rebuild my computer) or a result of the snapped white wire.

suggestions?

 

[Zepper]

You let yourself get distracted when working with sharp implements around that expensive of a card - you must not have paid for it with your own hard-earned money...

Wire wouldn't be there if not of some import - but if it was only connecting the fan, it couldn't be critical... The white wire is the speed sensor wire - card may throttle back if not reading the speed properly. If you have the card out of your pc, plug the fan onto a mobo header and see if your mobo monitor chip can read the rpms - then you'll know if it's working or not.

.bh.

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Yeah I don't know what I was thinking: I think it was late at night, I was working on it in front of another computer

it still works, and the fan itself will spool up and then die down, or spool up if i force it to via, say, ATItool. So I don't know... it's still out of my box as I havent had time to put it back in (im in high school)

 

[slpaulson]

If you soldered it back on correctly there should be no harm done.

Hopefully you didn't cut something else 🙂.

 

[chubbyfatazn]

The solder fell apart, apparently when I moved the case around. Nothing else was cut, thank God I cut only the white one instead of the black or red ones (power correct?)

Me and my stupidity at work 😀

 

[Ayah]

Yeah. black/red are usually power.