My eVga 7800GT CO's fan went eh?

[[RIP]Zeus]

Ok...
First i was playing some eve-online and all of a sudden the temp alarm for my vid card goes off... i kill the game and look at temps.... 83C.... Was like WTF!!

I check the card... fan stoped spinning.... hmmm why would it do that??

Anyways the fan spins at machine boot up... but once in windows it stops..

I have tried this card on 3 differnt machines and everytime it's the same thing.. boot up machine... fan runs... get into windows, and about 1 min later the fan stops...

I also did a boot up into DOS... fan ran at system boot... but stoped...

I am so confused... i even reflash the bios with what evga has on there website... still same problem... anyone come across this problem? and know how to fix it without an RMA?

 

[Rishy]

when it shuts off, did you try giving the fan a little nudge...?

 

[Pkirk618]

try coolbits "fan always on" to see what happens.

 

[[RIP]Zeus]

when it shuts off, did you try giving the fan a little nudge...?

Tried that to... The fan is very free flowing like it was when i bought it

try coolbits "fan always on" to see what happens.

tried that...

 

[Noni]

EVGA has a policy which states that if there is no physical damage to the card you can still return it for RMA.

I also asked them if it is ok to use a aftermarket cooling solution, they said yes. That being said, why not go for a Zalman VF700/900, artic silencer?

Good luck.

 

[[RIP]Zeus]

Anyone else have any idea's on what is going on?