[mythtv-users] Issue booting with new GT 430, WAS: Recent occasional tearing with GT 430 Advanced 2x?

[Tom Dexter]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Kevin Johnson <iitywygms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had that very same card and it did the same thing to me.
> Using nvidia-smi I saw really high temps.  When it got really hot the
> picture would freeze and other bad things happened.
>
> The fan on the card WAS WORKING.  I physically saw it spinning but when I
> actually checked close, it was dirty and hard to spin by hand.
> So I replaced the fan with a bigger fan that I rigged to the heat sinks.
> Ever since then, around 2 years, it has operated well within specs with no
> issues.
>
> You might try replacing the fan with something better.  It certainly will
> not make it worse.

If I decide to try to replace that two pin fan (just the fan, not the
heat sink) I'm a little unclear on the size.

That's an 11 blade fan and, based on the fact that the blade portion
of the fan is about 2 1/8 inches I'd assume its a 55mm fan, but beyond
that I'm confused...for example as to whether the are different
heights, and possibly different hole to hole sizes.  The blade of the
fan appears to be about 1/4" thick or so.

I've never bought one of those before.   If anyone can help clue me in
a little I'd appreciate it.  Thanks!

Tom