Krissy92
03-10-2012 04:07 AM (4 days ago)
Hello,
My family bought an HP Pavilion Elite m9510f Desktop back in like May or June of 2010, I believe, and after a few months it started making this awful rattling sound. My mom is the sole user of the computer and she wouldn't permit it being sent to the shop to see why it was making such awful noise. We just assumed it a problem with the fan, and we've been dealing with the noise until now.
The last few days it's been making even more noise. It's louder and doesn't stop like it did before, and sometimes it'll stop and go. I mean, it'll be making the noise and then stop as if it gets stuck and then make it and then stop etc, until it finally starts making it consistently again.
I did some googling and discovered that the video card, NVIDIA 9500GS, was recalled two years ago for this very reason! But the end of the recall was in July 2010, I believe, so that was just a month after we bought the computer and it wasn't making the rattling noise then.
Honestly, with the way that it's starting to sound, I'm getting afraid that the video card fan is going to stop completely.
So what's the best course of action here? I'm 2 years late for the recall, and the computer isn't in warranty anymore, so if I were to contact HP would they be of any assistence? Or would it benefit me more to just go and buy another video card? Which brings on more questions. If I have to replace the video card, I want a card that's just as good or better than the 9500gs, no downgrading. What is a relatively cheap video card that I would be able to replace it with?
Thanks.
My family bought an HP Pavilion Elite m9510f Desktop back in like May or June of 2010, I believe, and after a few months it started making this awful rattling sound. My mom is the sole user of the computer and she wouldn't permit it being sent to the shop to see why it was making such awful noise. We just assumed it a problem with the fan, and we've been dealing with the noise until now.
The last few days it's been making even more noise. It's louder and doesn't stop like it did before, and sometimes it'll stop and go. I mean, it'll be making the noise and then stop as if it gets stuck and then make it and then stop etc, until it finally starts making it consistently again.
I did some googling and discovered that the video card, NVIDIA 9500GS, was recalled two years ago for this very reason! But the end of the recall was in July 2010, I believe, so that was just a month after we bought the computer and it wasn't making the rattling noise then.
Honestly, with the way that it's starting to sound, I'm getting afraid that the video card fan is going to stop completely.
So what's the best course of action here? I'm 2 years late for the recall, and the computer isn't in warranty anymore, so if I were to contact HP would they be of any assistence? Or would it benefit me more to just go and buy another video card? Which brings on more questions. If I have to replace the video card, I want a card that's just as good or better than the 9500gs, no downgrading. What is a relatively cheap video card that I would be able to replace it with?
Thanks.