hi all
Today at morning, as usual every sunday, I woke up and took breakfast in front of the computer checking news and the techspot forums
I started to smell something burnt. I shutted down the coputer and took out the side panel, then i power again, all worked perfect but the fan of my graphics card is now 100% dead.
It's a Hercules Radeon 8500 I bought 3 months ago. I unpluged the little fan from the card so I stop smelling smoke. I can still play normally for hours without having a single artifact or system crash. My side panel has 2 fans blowing air inside, 1 to the cpu/mem area and another to the agp/norhtbridge area.
The gfx is not getting to hot. Can I ignore this and continue as normall? If a send the card to technical support, I won't see it again, I live in the Dominican Republic. If the card works fine for 3 or 4 months more I'm happy, but I'm worried about burning somehting else...
Today at morning, as usual every sunday, I woke up and took breakfast in front of the computer checking news and the techspot forums
I started to smell something burnt. I shutted down the coputer and took out the side panel, then i power again, all worked perfect but the fan of my graphics card is now 100% dead.
It's a Hercules Radeon 8500 I bought 3 months ago. I unpluged the little fan from the card so I stop smelling smoke. I can still play normally for hours without having a single artifact or system crash. My side panel has 2 fans blowing air inside, 1 to the cpu/mem area and another to the agp/norhtbridge area.
The gfx is not getting to hot. Can I ignore this and continue as normall? If a send the card to technical support, I won't see it again, I live in the Dominican Republic. If the card works fine for 3 or 4 months more I'm happy, but I'm worried about burning somehting else...
