Video Card Help (ASAP)

[King Cole]

Ok, I either get help with this within the next two days or I am going to do one of the following:
1) Throw my video card out the window.
2) Throw myself out the window (second floor).
3) Both.

For some reason, my video card wants to make a highly annoying "clicking" sound that I cannot get rid of for the life of me. I have taken a can of compressed air to it, no luck. I have unscrewed the fan section of it and used more compressed air, no luck. I swear, every second it keeps getting louder too.

[Bundt]

Option #2. Anyway, give more info, type of video card, computer, etc.

Have you tried starting up your computer while the case was off so you can actually see what it's hitting :P

[King Cole]

Option #2. Anyway, give more info, type of video card, computer, etc.

Have you tried starting up your computer while the case was off so you can actually see what it's hitting :P

Dell Vostro 430
NVIDIA GeForce (Don't know exact model)
Yes, and it really doesn't appear to be hitting anything. My guess is that it's something inside of the fan area of the card.

Update: It crashed and both my monitors went down till I rebooted.

[Bundt]

NVIDIA GeForce

Well theres your problem.

Umm... Have you taken the aircan directly to the fan? umm, get some tweezers if you can find the thing, its probally something very small and from my experience nvidia has pretty small fans on their cards, if all else fails, replace it, in a low class dell like that, the card isn't worth much.

NVIDIA GeForce® G310 not worth much, a decent card nowadays is only between $50-100 depending on what you wanna do.

[King Cole]

a decent card nowadays is only between $50-100 depending on what you wanna do.

Well, this is my computer for games, so... High-quality games.

Taking it apart again, hopefully this'll work. Don't want to call Dell.

[The Jerry]

Dell is run by twelve white Blood-Wannabe Gangsters all of which spell their name Darell but pronounce it Dah-RELL. Their customer service is worse than flying Delta

[Bundt]

Same with geek squad.

Get a radeon.

[Zeke]

Actually it's common for your driver to cause problems with the GPU fan, might wanna check that out.

[King Cole]

I just went with phoning Dell, sitting through their actually quite well (at least since the last time I tried it about 6-7 years) improved customer support, and they shipped me a new video card and motherboard. Only down-part is that they require a Dell representative to install them both, even though I am fully capable of doing so.

And, Zeke, I already did.

Thanks all.

[Bundt]

why another motherboard? also, you are under warrenty, lucky.

[King Cole]

why another motherboard? also, you are under warrenty, lucky.

Yeah, I got one year free with the purchase of the computer. Lucky me.

[Zeke]

Well, Dell did ship 12 million PCs that they knew were faulty so I hope they would be replacing things.

[Whitefang]

Yeah, I got one year free with the purchase of the computer. Lucky me.

But then you opened it up and unscrewed shit and voided it.

[Bundt]

Not that they know.... he said their shipping him free shiz

[King Cole]

Not that they know.... he said their shipping him free shiz

Exactly. Is me a geneous or wut?