Just thought I'd update everyone on what I did to fix my fan problem
on the video card. I had a Sunon fan/heatsink on my Nvidia GeForce
5600 card that was making a terrible squeeling sound. So, removed the
fan, not the heatsink, and mounted the fan from an ICEBERQ 4
fan/heatsink, which I bought from Fry's Electronics ($17). The
ICEBERQ 4 fan didn't mate with the screw holes of the Sunon heatsink,
so I just epoxyed the fan on the Sunon heatsink. I tried to remove
the Sunon fan/heatsink from the GPU chip using a razor blade, but was
finding it was taking too much force and I was making no progress. I
didn' t want to damage the GPU or the PC board. So, decided just
replacing the fan was the way to go. The ICEBERQ 4 fan screw holes
don't line up with the existing heatsink holes, so just position the
new fan so the mounting tabs lay on top of the lower heatsink fins
down in the cavity, and epoxy it to those fins. The new fan on the
existing heatsink works just fine. The GPU temp runs about 95 deg F
when running MS flight Simulator at 1024 x 768 resolution. And, the
new fan isn't all that loud. So, I'm a happy camper. Hope this helps
others with the problem. Looks like Sunon has generic problems with
their so called "Mag Levi" fans. I certainly don't like them.

Don


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:13:13 GMT, (Don) wrote:

The GPU fan on my NVIDIA GeForce 5600 graphics card (came with my Hp
m390n Media Center computer) makes a squeel. I'm trying to replace it
with an ICEBERQ 4 fan, but can't figure out how to remove the SUNON
fan from the GPU chip. Is it cemented on? How do I remove it without
damaging the chip?

Thanks,
Don


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