Hello everyone,
I've bought an ASUS Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 about 4 years ago. Now just a couple of weeks ago, I was playing World of Tanks on my main screen (Samsung 24inch) while I had a stream up on a 2nd screen (Medion 17inch). Suddenly, my GPU fan started spinning at 100%, which had never occured before. I recognised the noise because it was the same noise the GPU fan makes when I boot up the computer. Shortly after it started spinning at 100% my video feed fell out, but my computer kept running. I tried the reboot button, but my video feed didn't come back.
I then pressed in the power button until my computer turned off. I waited a couple of seconds before turning him on again, and the video feed came back on. Booted up World of Tanks again, enabled the stream on the 2nd screen and shortly after same thing happened again. Redid everything I did the 1st time and booted the computer again. This time however, it only stayed on for about 1-2min.
Spent ages looking on Google for a reason as to why my video feed would only last about 1-2min before my computer fell out and here is what I've done so far:
- Cleaned out the PCI-E slot on my mobo
- Cleaned out ANY dust on the GPU cooling unit: I've stripped the card, blown out anything, blown off the fan wings etc.
- Reapplied new cooling paste to the cooling unit as well as the GPU processor.
So now when I boot the computer, instead os just 10-15s of 100% fanspeed at the start of the boot, the GPU fan keeps on spinning at 100% constantly, until my video feed just suddenly disappears. There's no beeps or clicks involved, and the card itself doesn't feel hot or anything. When I'm running GPU-Z, my GPU temperature jumps from 0 to 128°C to 0 and so forth... So all the time 0-128-0-128-0-128...
This makes me to believe my temperature sensor is broken or something. Or am I completely wrong?
Anyone who could either tell me where the sensor is on the board and wether or not I could replace/have it replaced or if I am forced to buy a new GPU in all.
Thanks in advance for any help concerning this case!
/Kimi
I've bought an ASUS Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 about 4 years ago. Now just a couple of weeks ago, I was playing World of Tanks on my main screen (Samsung 24inch) while I had a stream up on a 2nd screen (Medion 17inch). Suddenly, my GPU fan started spinning at 100%, which had never occured before. I recognised the noise because it was the same noise the GPU fan makes when I boot up the computer. Shortly after it started spinning at 100% my video feed fell out, but my computer kept running. I tried the reboot button, but my video feed didn't come back.
I then pressed in the power button until my computer turned off. I waited a couple of seconds before turning him on again, and the video feed came back on. Booted up World of Tanks again, enabled the stream on the 2nd screen and shortly after same thing happened again. Redid everything I did the 1st time and booted the computer again. This time however, it only stayed on for about 1-2min.
Spent ages looking on Google for a reason as to why my video feed would only last about 1-2min before my computer fell out and here is what I've done so far:
- Cleaned out the PCI-E slot on my mobo
- Cleaned out ANY dust on the GPU cooling unit: I've stripped the card, blown out anything, blown off the fan wings etc.
- Reapplied new cooling paste to the cooling unit as well as the GPU processor.
So now when I boot the computer, instead os just 10-15s of 100% fanspeed at the start of the boot, the GPU fan keeps on spinning at 100% constantly, until my video feed just suddenly disappears. There's no beeps or clicks involved, and the card itself doesn't feel hot or anything. When I'm running GPU-Z, my GPU temperature jumps from 0 to 128°C to 0 and so forth... So all the time 0-128-0-128-0-128...
This makes me to believe my temperature sensor is broken or something. Or am I completely wrong?
Anyone who could either tell me where the sensor is on the board and wether or not I could replace/have it replaced or if I am forced to buy a new GPU in all.
Thanks in advance for any help concerning this case!
/Kimi