Sometimes, we all make mistakes.

[VirtualLarry]

I noticed that my second Q9300 @ 3.0, with HD4850, doing DC work, had the GPU @ 100C and 70% fan speed. Then I felt the rear of the case, little to no exhaust air.

So I looked through the side window (see! they do have a purpose), and my rear case exhaust fan was not spinning.

So I turn it off, and open it up, thinking I just forgot to plug the fan in.

Nope. The rear scoop of my CM Hyper TX2 was physically blocking the rear exhaust fan from spinning.

Now, I had transplanted these mobos, with coolers, into a Rosewill Redbone, and a RaidMax Tornado (the one I'm talking about now). Two years ago.

Just that at my old apt, I kept the case sides off, and only recently did I put them all back on.

Whoops.

Anyways, I was able to unsnap the fan / shroud assembly, and move it 0.5cm away from the exhaust fan. Problem solved, for now.

 

[Charlie98]

So... it hasn't been spinning all this time?

 

[lehtv]

TWO YEARS. Jeeeeebus.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I noticed that my second Q9300 @ 3.0, with HD4850, doing DC work, had the GPU @ 100C and 70% fan speed. Then I felt the rear of the case, little to no exhaust air.

So I looked through the side window (see! they do have a purpose), and my rear case exhaust fan was not spinning.

So I turn it off, and open it up, thinking I just forgot to plug the fan in.

Nope. The rear scoop of my CM Hyper TX2 was physically blocking the rear exhaust fan from spinning.

Now, I had transplanted these mobos, with coolers, into a Rosewill Redbone, and a RaidMax Tornado (the one I'm talking about now). Two years ago.

Just that at my old apt, I kept the case sides off, and only recently did I put them all back on.

Whoops.

Anyways, I was able to unsnap the fan / shroud assembly, and move it 0.5cm away from the exhaust fan. Problem solved, for now.

You might know -- the anxieties about these little things make our wallets cause an itch in our pockets. "What to do next? What to do now?"

Do you think there was any damage?

I want to get the kinks ironed out of a not-too-easy match between an NVidia LGA-775 rig and WHS 2011. Drivers. Dang drivers. Finally sorted some of it out, but there are a couple boot-time errors in the event log for nForce net-card initialization. And -- a buggy add-in program -- "Advanced Administrative Console" which needs a revision upgrade.

I'm going to see this through, and then I'm going to keep this WHS configuration for four more years. But a couple days ago, I was thinking how I could replace the orphan NVidia curse.

 

[DigDog]

points to ATI for the 4850

 

[VirtualLarry]

TWO YEARS. Jeeeeebus.

Well, it wasn't overheating for two years, thanks to me having the case side off, for all of that time, until just recently (last month or two).

I did wonder what those two strange loud noises from the direction of my computers was though, last night. Maybe the fan blades managed to make a small movement to the next blade.

Anyways, I think that the 120mm exhaust fan motor might be a little burned out, it's not spinning very fast. Then again, I don't know what speed it's supposed to be spinning at (came with the case).

 

[Subyman]

I felt bad recently about some problems my friend's build was having. I sold him my 800D for a great price to get him into a proper case on the cheap and put together a build list of a i5 4670k, Asus motherboard, R9 290, etc. He was having constant trouble with his capture card and streaming to Twitch. After about a month of troubleshooting it finally came down to the front USB I/O panel being defective. The only way we figured it out was that it got so bad that the panel finally fried a capture card. I never used the front panel, so I didn't know when I sold it to him.