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Not looking for any advice ... just venting. Anyways...
I put this thing together just over 2 years ago. It's never worked properly. First the PSU failed, then there was a bad hard drive. After installing the new HDD and reinstalling windows he was unable to use it since he didn't have the driver disk anymore and couldn't get online to download them.
Now he brings it to me and says there is no sound and it tells him one of his video cards has been disabled.
The video problem is ... wow... it's something else. He has two 6600 GT's in SLI. The main card's fan isn't there. It's barely hanging on by its power cable. I pull that card out and try to reset the fan, that won't work. It won't even spin in my hand. The plastic casing that the fan spins on is cracked open. I don't know if there were bearings in there or what but it's gone now. I take out the 2nd card and try to put that in place of the primary. That card's fan is off a little to, I level it but it won't spin either.
I boot the pc, it loads so that is a good thing, but I notice the CPU fan isn't spinning either! I give it a little spin with my finger and it takes off (like an old airplane propeller) but it isn't spinning very fast. The system seems stable even with the cpu fan barely working and the video card fan not working at all. Still, I can't imagine it will work very long in that state. So I shut it down and call him. Then I type up this laundry list of problems for your reading enjoyment. What a day!
I put this thing together just over 2 years ago. It's never worked properly. First the PSU failed, then there was a bad hard drive. After installing the new HDD and reinstalling windows he was unable to use it since he didn't have the driver disk anymore and couldn't get online to download them.
Now he brings it to me and says there is no sound and it tells him one of his video cards has been disabled.
The video problem is ... wow... it's something else. He has two 6600 GT's in SLI. The main card's fan isn't there. It's barely hanging on by its power cable. I pull that card out and try to reset the fan, that won't work. It won't even spin in my hand. The plastic casing that the fan spins on is cracked open. I don't know if there were bearings in there or what but it's gone now. I take out the 2nd card and try to put that in place of the primary. That card's fan is off a little to, I level it but it won't spin either.
I boot the pc, it loads so that is a good thing, but I notice the CPU fan isn't spinning either! I give it a little spin with my finger and it takes off (like an old airplane propeller) but it isn't spinning very fast. The system seems stable even with the cpu fan barely working and the video card fan not working at all. Still, I can't imagine it will work very long in that state. So I shut it down and call him. Then I type up this laundry list of problems for your reading enjoyment. What a day!