Recently, while playing games, my computer has been freezing up, which then leads to a restart. I figured the problem was a heat issue because i was not failing to a blue screen or getting any error messages like would be happening if it was a RAM problem or something. I ended up finding out that the fan attached to the heatsink of my VGA has stopped spinning. I spent some time trying to fix this by taking the fan off the card's heatsink, blowing some compressed air on it to get out any dirt buildup, obstructions, etc...no luck. I then took it back off, and noticed that the fan was becoming very, very difficult to spin, and the canned air was not moving it a bit, and i could move it with my finger but it took way more efffort than it should have. So, i then got it a little more loose with some lubricants, and thought i was good to go...but when i put the card back in the slot, the fan would still not spin.
Any inkling of help would be greatly appreciated
Any inkling of help would be greatly appreciated
