stormchaser
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Soup, guys.
I was having a problem with my computer. I came home one day and my computer was off. (I had left it on.) My brother said he had used it to play TF2, but had left it on. Apparently it crashed to shutdown after he had left.
When I turned it on again, it was making a buzzing sound, which I assume is the fan. Additionally Speedfan is putting my core temperature at between 50 to 68. I can maintain it at around 50 if I take the side of the computer off and put a fan beside it.
I also bought and installed an NVidia 7300 in my PCI-E slot the day before this started.
So, does anyone know:
1. Is the fan malfunctioning, causing the buzzing and temperature, or is the high temperature causing the fan to overwork itself?
2. Is this because of the graphics card? Is the card itself overheating, or does "core" signify the CPU?
3. Most importantly, how can this be fixed?
EDIT: By the way there is no loss of performance, all though all my Valve games that use the Source engine crash with one of these messages:
"Engine error: Failed to lock index buffer:Cmesh something"
or
"Engine error: Failed to lock vertex buffer:Cmesh something"
This started when I got the new card. My previous card was an integrated Intel 82945G.
I was having a problem with my computer. I came home one day and my computer was off. (I had left it on.) My brother said he had used it to play TF2, but had left it on. Apparently it crashed to shutdown after he had left.
When I turned it on again, it was making a buzzing sound, which I assume is the fan. Additionally Speedfan is putting my core temperature at between 50 to 68. I can maintain it at around 50 if I take the side of the computer off and put a fan beside it.
I also bought and installed an NVidia 7300 in my PCI-E slot the day before this started.
So, does anyone know:
1. Is the fan malfunctioning, causing the buzzing and temperature, or is the high temperature causing the fan to overwork itself?
2. Is this because of the graphics card? Is the card itself overheating, or does "core" signify the CPU?
3. Most importantly, how can this be fixed?
EDIT: By the way there is no loss of performance, all though all my Valve games that use the Source engine crash with one of these messages:
"Engine error: Failed to lock index buffer:Cmesh something"
or
"Engine error: Failed to lock vertex buffer:Cmesh something"
This started when I got the new card. My previous card was an integrated Intel 82945G.