Catastrophic Failure w/ Nvidia

[Anonymous]

Anyone running an Nvidia video card.

I had an Nvidia T4100 which has its own fan built-in. Recently the fan blew which, according to my computer tech caused the video card to continue running but since the fan was gone, it did not cool.

Last week, my entire system crashed, and the nearly everything was damaged, including 1 gb RAM, (3) hard-drives, video card, power supply.

Luckily I keep backups of all data on CD as well, since all hard-drives were damaged, including my backup hard-drive.

Has anyone come across this. I am very suspicious of the advice given by the computer tech. I find it difficult to believe that the video card would not stop running as soon as the fan stopped, and even then, hard to imagine the damage done.

Feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks, Grant

[Djordje]

NOELDESIGNS wrote:
Has anyone come across this. I am very suspicious of the advice given by the computer tech. I find it difficult to believe that the video card would not stop running as soon as the fan stopped, and even then, hard to imagine the damage done.

The damage done was really a little too much, but I can definitely imagine that the card literally melted after the fan stopped, and that it did not stop working - if it did not have the temperature guages, or the fan status indicator, that would be the reason.

I had similar experience with the processor - it is rather dusty here, the computer is on the floor, and a lot of cigarette smoke is around ... so each couple of weeks I open the machine and vaccum it with the plain househould vaccum cleaner ... you would not believe what collects on the fans!!! Sometimes I wonder how it works at all.

When my processor melted (literally) the motherboard was also gone, the sound card too, one disk was damaged beyound repair, the other could be saved by reformatting, half of the RAM was also gone. So your extent of the damage is not hard to believe ...

Sorry!

[stefan]

I have had the ventilator of my (old) Geforce 256DDR replaced about 4 times allready. At the time it goes broke, I can hear it as a whining roar inside the PC. Opening the case and (manually) stopping the fan has always learned me that it was indeed this fan.

It has been replaced for free (two times) and once I just got a spare one in a computer store. The fan is really not expensive. The card and the PC is, though.

If the processor would overheat, I thought the PC would crash or start rebooting from time to time. I never heard about destroying the PC with it... I think you had really bad luck.

Oh, and I had an explosion of my power supply, but it didn't destroy anything else with it. Let's say I was lucky, since I had no full backup of my data... Come to think of it, I still haven't.