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    Graphics Card Fans Starts and Stops

    New ati hd 3650 installed with latest driver from sapphire website and the fan starts and stops every 10 secs or so.

    Display is fine, is the fan knackered or is that normal ?

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    It may be normal, many fans are thermostatically controlled. It would be a good idea to monitor your GPU temp though:

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    Thanks for the reply but i think i might have made some progress. I unisntall the ati cataylst program and just left vista to update the driver. The fan is now purring away like it should. It aint quiet but not many stock one are.

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    Actually, that doesn't surprise me at all, I've never been a fan of Catalyst one bit
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    I thought i had it sussed and then the fan started going back into a stop start every 20 seconds or so.

    I think it kicks in when things start to get warm after the PC has been switched on for a while.

    Going to try card on some other pcs and ask around.

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    Try rolling back the driver to the previous version and see if that solves things.

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    I still think you should monitor the GPU temp and see if there is any correlation between the temperature and the fan speed.
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