can a fan cause a big power fluxuation?

[DermicSavage]

I had just finished installing my water system(CPU & NB) and decided to be quick about hooking everything up, so I could see what I could do with my new toy.

So I had one of my case fans hooked up fresh from the power supply, and then had the connection from the fan go into my radeon 9800.

When I started up my system, the fan made a helluva lot of noise(this noise usually happened every tiem i started the system, and would last a minute or two. yet, i never managed to track down what was making the noise). So i reach back to grab at the frame of the fan just to see if it is loose a little, and find myself breaking a fan blade on my finger.
Next thing i notice is that my video immediately cuts out, and go figure my vid card is now dead. To my best assumption, when i jammed the fan, it cause some surge or sumthin that went to the vid card and killed it.

Can a fan actually do this?

and aslo, whats the best way to remove the OCZ ramsinks off my vid card?(since I'm making a thread anyway )

 

[primea]

any component that has a voltage resistence can do this ... is the video card really dead?

 

[DermicSavage]

The computer will post fine, but there is no display.

I swapped the card into another system, and sure enough, it's gone...

 

[Shackmaster]

1. Your PSU might not be very strong

2. When connecting high power components, connect them on their own wire. (don't connect a bunch of stuff to the molex connectors all on the same set of wires with a high power device)

I hope you get your system back up and running soon.