Fan on Mother Board making noise, please help! 5

[hippolover]

The small Fan on my Mother Board (not the CPU/Heatsink fan) has started making a high pitched noise when I start up the PC. I can touch the fan at certain places and it will stop making the noise, and then, after it seems to get up to speed, it stops making the noise altogether. I figure it may be a bearing going bad in the fan and I'd like to replace the fan, but I can't find any specifics about it in the Mother Board User's Manual. Is this just any type of small MOB fan that could go in this spot? It looks like it is on top of a chip on the MOB. I have the EP-8KTA3PRO/EP-8KTA3+PRO Mother Board. The place on the MOB where this fan is located is just below the CPU/Heatsink fan and just above the AGP slot. It's a small fan and according to the layout in the User's Manual, it's on top of the VIA VT8363A chip on the MOB. Is anyone familiar with this small fan, and do I just get any small MOB fan to replace it?
I certainly don't want to burn up the Mother Board because of it.
Thank you so much in advance for your assistance!
You've been most helpful in the past!
-Vicko

 

[norty303]

Yep, my gfx card fan locks up every few months so i lubricate and free it up when it does. As with any mechanical moving part, they are prone to wear and failure and i find that with the hours that they run for a little maintenance goes a long way.

My next graphics card purchase will almost definately have a passive heatsink just for peace of mind. The heat they generate does the motor bush/bearing no good at all and has a habit of drying out the lube.

I've found that northbridge fans run slower than gfx card fans (in the ones i've encountered) and the rattle they produce is much lower and more 'graunchy'. My GA7DX ran for 3 years with a blob of Blu-tak keeping it quiet

 

[paparazi]

norty303
Thats why I pointed the passive coolers from Zalman (no fan to go wrong)

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=014

Martin

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[micker377]

edfair:
Yeah, I learned! (It just stopped - no noise) I also swapped my PCI cards around (one of the other cards was full size, and "blocked" the airflow to the fan). I put a card ("L" shaped), next to the vid card, un-blocking the air to the fan. Normally, I leave the PCI slot next to the video open. Unfortunately, my box is getting full!

Something to check, no matter what type of cooling.