I just got my eVGA PCI-E 6800GT yesterday and finished the build of my new PC... it was running great for a while. I started installing Windows XP and during the hard drive format, suddenly the video card fan started making this horrible sound... i'm not talking about your normal loud fan type sound, i mean a really loud obnoxious sound. I waited for the hard drive format to finish and for the install to go to the point where I could turn off the computer and I removed the card... I spun the fan with my finger a bit and didn't hear too much but I found that if I put the least little bit of pressure on the fan it would scrape the board and make a sound similar to what I was hearing. I reinstalled board and turned the computer back on and it was quiet the rest of the night.
Anybody else have this board? If the problem doesn't come back I have no issues, but if this is going to be a common thing it isn't acceptable.. I can't live with that kind of noise coming from my computer.... I don't know if I can get a replacement card from eVGA or if I did get a replacement card if they all do this same thing. I didn't look yet to see if replacing the fan on the GPU is an option... anybody know?
I hope that this is an easily solveable problem, or that it was a fluke and isn't going to repeat itself... but if it happened this first night it doesn't seem likely that it will never happen again.
-Jeff
