Strange noise

[philip41]

Hi all, do not know if this is a problem or not but my pc has started over the last few days making a Whirring noise, this is happening at 20 or so second intervals, at first i thought it was a fan failing so i took the side cover off but after 30 mins the fans are all still running ok.

It almost sounds like when a cd drive is spinning down, but no i do not have a cd in the drive.

I have about a week ago put in the 4.12 Nvidia IDE drivers could these maybe causing one of the HD's to spin down, or is it more likely one of the drives is on the way out, if so how can i tell.

Thanks inadvance.

[Howard]

Unplug all unnecessary fans and see if it still does it

[philip41]

Howard did what you suggested and it turns out to be the fan on my 9800 pro , guess i will have to try to rma it.

[Howard]

Edit: Crap, saw your sig.

Is it the Sapphire with the ATi fan??

[philip41]

Yes m8 it is are they known to have a high failure rate then?

[Howard]

No they are not that's the thing. The Sapphire fans are. But I thought the ATi ones were good

I'll pray mine doesn't bugger up!!

[philip41]

Ok m8 thanks, will let you no what happens.

Cheers.

[oshta]

see - everyone should fit a ZM-80HPa

[philip41]

see - everyone should fit a ZM-80HPa

Are they that good then.

[0iD]

They are indeed good, but so is the Arctic VGA cooler at a fraction of the cost. However the Zallman Heatpipe is silent.

[Howard]

The ATi fan is sufficient for me Not overclocking yet

[Captain Fizz]

Well - My "Connect 3D" fan lasted about... 6 weeks.

It's got an Iceberq thingmo on it now though so it glows Bl00 too.

[Howard]

I replaced my mate's (Sapphire ) graphics card fan with an Iceberq. Noisy bugger, but well made and good quality

[philip41]

Ok then I have just put in an order for one of these Arctic Cooling REV3 VGA Silencer , i decided that it was not worth the hassle and cost of postage returning for rma just when all said and done is a dodgy Fan, and as it happens the blasted thing has been very quiet today.