I recently bought a Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB graphics card - it was the only card that would (a) work in my old PC and (b) was available from suppliers. It's a Sapphire board. Yesterday the fan on the card started making a noise rather like a fish tank pump, only without the soothing bubbling :D. It's driving me nuts. I've heard that some graphics cards are noisy, so my question is "Is the card meant to make that kind of noise or should I send it back and hope the replacement is better?" One other thing - the board is upside-down in my PC (i.e. the fan points down not up). Would this have anything to do with the noise level? I guess I'm stuffed if so :(

Thanks

John

It's possible that the fan's design and its orientation(facing the bottom of the case) makes it noisy. But it may also be a defective fan.
Best to RMA it for a replacement to make sure.

Most graphics cards (maybe all) with fans will point downward in a tower case, this is normal.... Before you RMA the card, you might check to see if the fan just needs to be tightened a bit onto its mount...

Thanks. I'll try tightening the fan and will send the board back if that doesn't work.

John

One other thing :) Occasionally the text mouse pointer (i.e. the I bar) will turn red with a corrupted cyan block attached to it. I've tried various text/mouse related settings but the problem still occurs. I tried upgrading to the latest Catalyst drivers but that hasn't fixed it. It's only the text pointer - arrows, hands, egg timer, etc. are all fine. Any ideas? I've searched the web and can't find anything documented. It comes and goes randomly. Operating system is Windows 98 SE.

Thanks

John

Update your antivirus program with the latest files and do a virus check.
Also, remove any spyware with either Ad-aware or Spybot.