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Cleaning an ATI Rage128Pro fan (G4 AGP origin graphic board) light version
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As usual, I cannot be responsible for any damage to your machines when you will experiment the following tutorial.
Why ?
Because of the several noise sources in my office's room: one G4, one iMac, one B and B G3, an external hard disk, a external burner, a tape drive, a Xerox copier... all these machines generate a noise I get familair.
But the new noise which whistles from the G4 drives me bad ;-).
-> I start to discover the noise's origin.
When I open the G4's door, less noise. I close it, noise comes back.
I put my finger on the graphic board's fan to stop it: silence.
The culprit was found :-)
-> Fortunately I had kept a voodoo pci board; I can shutdown the G4 and put the Voodoo inside, to be able to still use the G4 while operating the ATI one.
-> here we goes!
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The yellow arrows show the screws to be removed, the blue one points to the power connector to be unhooked.
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Once the fan removed, we can discover how dusty is the fan's craddle.
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The fan is also dirty (yellow arrow). The blue arrow shows a little curiosity in this operation: the pastic connector was ripped off... but the metallic contacts remained on the board.
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I clean the fan with a paintbrush...
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... as I do for the radiator itself (yellow arrow).
The blue arrow points to the metallic connectors we loose in the operation ;-).
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I finish the cleaning process with a demak'up cotton impregnated with isopropyllic alcohol.
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Then I rip off the sticker: do not damage it, it will be put back!
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A little squirt of sewing machine oil (or equivalent) to lubricate the axis.
Sticker put back in place... and I rebuild the whole stuff.
Wow: a very noiseless G4... but... oh no... now, this is the 7500 machine internal hard disk which I hear the most... :-)
