Re: nVidia Card driving me nuts!

Yves Leclerc wrote:
I mean that the fan sensor is noting a climb in temperature and will spin faster to cool it down (thus increasing the noise.)

It can make the noise after being off all night as soon as I push the start button to turn on the computer. Sometimes it won't. Sometimes, if it's been on a long time and I turn the computer off, it will make noise. Sometimes it won't. So, I think we can rule heat out.

OOPS! The should be Driver Cleaner Pro and not Drive Cleaner Pro.
Driver Cleaner Pro is not part of XP but it is free! (http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.php)

Thanks, I found it and a tech friend of mine is taking a look at it to figure out how it works.

Alias



On 25/09/2006 Alias~- <notever@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yves Leclerc wrote:
The VGA fan might have a sensor which will trigger the motor when the GPU (graphic processing unit) temperature starts to climb higher. It is very important that the processors (CPU & GPU) remain at a relative "cool" temperature or they will fry / melt.
Are you saying that the noise means it's too hot or that I need a fan?
You can locate after-market replacement fans and water-coolers. Follow instructions to the letter.
That's what I'm going to do.
As for removing the nVidia completely, you need to also locate Driver
Cleaner
Pro. Most video card driver uninstall process leave "left-over" files that can cause problems.
Is Drive Cleaner Pro a part of XP or a third party application. If the latter, where do I get it and is it free?

Step to remove nVidia video cards.

1) Uninstall video drivers in Add/Remove programs.... (Do not reboot
yet...)
2) Uninstall nVidia card in Device Manager. (Still do not reboot.)

3) Run Driver Cleaner Pro and select nVidia as the driver to clean.

4) Reboot and quickly access the BIOS.

5) Activate onboard video card.

6) Shutdown PC and remove the card

7) Connect monitor to onboard video card

8) Start the PC. Let XP detect the video card.

9) If XP is asking for the drivers, let it detect it and install the
"default"
ones for now.

10) Locate the video card in Device Manager and look on the manufacturer's web site for the most recent version of the drivers. This should provide
you
with a more complete driver set (higher resolutions, better DirectX/OpenGL support)
Thanks,

Alias


On 25/09/2006 Alias~- <notever@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an nVidia card that has a fan that sometimes makes a lot of racket. I have used a can of air to clean out the fan and no joy. Sometimes I turn on the computer and it makes no noise at all, other times it makes noise. It doesn't matter if the computer's been on for awhile or has been off all night. I am assuming the card is defective so I want to revert to the onboard video card for now. What is the procedure for uninstalling the nVidia and reverting back to the onboard card?

I think I should do the following but I am not sure:

1. Uninstall the drivers for the nVidia card in Device Manager.

2. Turn off the computer.

3. Remove the nVidia card from the AGP slot.

4. Connect the monitor to the onboard card.

5. Boot into BIOS and enable the onboard card and disable the AGP.

6. Boot into Windows from the BIOS and install the onboard card's drivers from the MB CD.

7. Remove all nVidia crap from MSCONFIG.

Thanks,

Alias
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