OK, not quite on fire but produced a nasty burning smell. Turns out the fan in my card had failed a while back and I never noticed. It was clogged up with dust and wouldn't budge. This is my work machine and it runs Windows, and other than my screen saver crashing there was no ill effect. I blamed the screen saver, disabled it and didn't think much more of it. Today I thought I'd give the Fedora 13 Live CD a spin and about 20 minutes in I noticed the smell. For whatever reason Fedora was making the card work overtime and it got *extremely* hot. The plastic fan had started melting and the PCB has a burnt spot directly under the heatsink. Of course this wouldn't have happened if the fan hadn't failed, but still makes me wonder why there was such a different between Windows and Fedora? Even with the fan working the card would have gotten pretty hot. Both where just displaying a simple desktop, no fancy 3D effects. The card is a GeForce 9400 GT. I'm not sure what driver Fedora was using, but the desktop effects where unavailable when I tried them. Hacked on a replacement fan and the card seems to have survived intact. Haven't tried Fedora again though! -Phil -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
