I have an evga motherboard and it is making some serious racket. I have water cooling over the CPU but there is another fan on the motherboard right beside the graphics card and when it starts to spins it makes a wierd sound like the fan is rubbing on something i checked it out myslef but no avail. =/ Please any info would be helpfull.
Sounds like the ol' northbridge fan problem, you can easily get a water cooled block for it, but you should know that if you watercool.
So is that like another water cooling system? It would seem kind of redundant to have 2 if at all possible? Do you know what is making the noise? I know its the fan but how do you stop it from making the noise? Maybe a bit of cleaning? Maybe one of the bearings is shot? Also the temp gauge reads FF not really sure if that has something to do with it. I really have no clue and really dont want to have to ship it all the way back to the dealer just to get a week from now =/ A bit more info CPU-3800+ X2 AMD Ram-1 Gig Videocard-7800GT Powersuplly-500W Thats about all i know about it
The fan is probably just loosing its bearings. You can normally get Zalman silent heatsinks for them, you'll have to look for evga replacement northbridge coolers.
Thanks for the info ill check it out Edit-Would unpluging it untill my new heatsink/fan arrives harm my computer at all?
Dont unplug it, if its the nforce4 series board they create rather a large amount of heat, so unplugging it will do you no favours, unless you do unplug it but leave it on there and get like a 80mm fan seperately cooling the thing insted of the fan on the actual unit.
Installed new fan today. Fixed the problem completely no more wicked sounds and add 1024 more ram in the form of 2 more sticks of 512 2.5 cas latency memory. Bit of info if anyone reads this that has some issues. #1. Unplug the comp from the wall cause that can cause an issue. #2. Label all plugs before starting project. Including the plug slot. #3. Clips on the BACK of the motherboard release the old fan. Might require you remove the mobo completely from the tray. #4. Finally-Read the instructions. I didnt for the first 20 min then i finally dug em out of the trash can and bam it went together real smoth now i have a quiet fan to keep my mobo cool as ice.
