Hi there,
I have recently been experiencing problems when playing half life 2, after around 5-10 minutes of playing my screen would either just freeze or the monitor would go into standby with the sound still looping, in both cases a manual restart was needed.
I have never had this problem before and have always played this game without any problems.
Someone suggested that perhaps I was experiencing overheating, so I opened up the side of the case and successfully played for over an hour.
While I had the case open I noticed that the fan on my graphics card was not spinning, so I removed my card to have a closer look.
The heatsink and fan were caked in dust, so I removed the fan (which is held on the heatsink by 3 small screws, and throughly cleaned both the heatsink and fan).
I than replaced the card and again played half life 2 for over a hour with the side of the case off, during this time the fan did not spin at all.
I then replaced the side of the case and played again and sure enough within 10 mins, my monitor appeared to go into standby mode and I had to manually reboot.
So it appears that the fan that sits within the heatsink of my graphics card is broken, so my question is can I get a replacement for this fan, that will just sit straight on/in the heatsink and if not, what else can I do to resolve this problem.
I have the following set up:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2600 MHz
Motherboard Name MSI MS-6701 (Medion OEM) (
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (01/24/03)
Windows XP
Video Adapter Properties:
Device Description MEDION RADEON 9600 TX
Adapter String MEDION RADEON 9600 TX
BIOS String BK-ATI VER008.004.008.004
Chip Type RADEON 9600 TX AGP (0x4E46)
DAC Type Internal DAC(400MHz)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag (6.14.10.6517 - ATI Catalyst 5.3)
Memory Size 128 MB
Temperatures:
Motherboard 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU 50 °C (122 °F)
HDD 45 °C (113 °F)
The fan has the following on it:
Sunon
Magnetic Levitation System
124010VM
14.ms.ct.57.m
DC12V - 1.0W
CH0304
ZP
CLE
Many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer me
I have recently been experiencing problems when playing half life 2, after around 5-10 minutes of playing my screen would either just freeze or the monitor would go into standby with the sound still looping, in both cases a manual restart was needed.
I have never had this problem before and have always played this game without any problems.
Someone suggested that perhaps I was experiencing overheating, so I opened up the side of the case and successfully played for over an hour.
While I had the case open I noticed that the fan on my graphics card was not spinning, so I removed my card to have a closer look.
The heatsink and fan were caked in dust, so I removed the fan (which is held on the heatsink by 3 small screws, and throughly cleaned both the heatsink and fan).
I than replaced the card and again played half life 2 for over a hour with the side of the case off, during this time the fan did not spin at all.
I then replaced the side of the case and played again and sure enough within 10 mins, my monitor appeared to go into standby mode and I had to manually reboot.
So it appears that the fan that sits within the heatsink of my graphics card is broken, so my question is can I get a replacement for this fan, that will just sit straight on/in the heatsink and if not, what else can I do to resolve this problem.
I have the following set up:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2600 MHz
Motherboard Name MSI MS-6701 (Medion OEM) (
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (01/24/03)
Windows XP
Video Adapter Properties:
Device Description MEDION RADEON 9600 TX
Adapter String MEDION RADEON 9600 TX
BIOS String BK-ATI VER008.004.008.004
Chip Type RADEON 9600 TX AGP (0x4E46)
DAC Type Internal DAC(400MHz)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag (6.14.10.6517 - ATI Catalyst 5.3)
Memory Size 128 MB
Temperatures:
Motherboard 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU 50 °C (122 °F)
HDD 45 °C (113 °F)
The fan has the following on it:
Sunon
Magnetic Levitation System
124010VM
14.ms.ct.57.m
DC12V - 1.0W
CH0304
ZP
CLE
Many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer me