Hi all!
I've googled for a good hour trying to find a fix and have had no luck...
I've got 2 Mac Pros (an early 2008, and a 2009 I've just received).
My new MP has one of these - NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
The 2008 MP has this - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB - and this - ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB.
So, for practical reasons, I need to swap these graphics cards between the two MPs. All are PCIe cards so I thought it would be problem free...
With the GT120 that came with the new MP, the expansion slot fan goes at a calm 700rpm. If I have both or just one of the two cards from the 2008 MP in the new MP, the expansion slot fan (after a couple of mins) slowly revs up to about 1700rpm. It's pretty loud. Something's definitely not right.
I would expect the expansion slot fan to run a bit high from having bigger, hotter card(s) but this seems a bit extreme. The fan's easily too loud to live with.
This is also the 2nd 2009MP if had - I returned the first machine because of a sizzling power supply. Both of these 2009MPs had this graphics card problem.
Any help would be great.
npj
I've googled for a good hour trying to find a fix and have had no luck...
I've got 2 Mac Pros (an early 2008, and a 2009 I've just received).
My new MP has one of these - NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
The 2008 MP has this - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB - and this - ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB.
So, for practical reasons, I need to swap these graphics cards between the two MPs. All are PCIe cards so I thought it would be problem free...
With the GT120 that came with the new MP, the expansion slot fan goes at a calm 700rpm. If I have both or just one of the two cards from the 2008 MP in the new MP, the expansion slot fan (after a couple of mins) slowly revs up to about 1700rpm. It's pretty loud. Something's definitely not right.
I would expect the expansion slot fan to run a bit high from having bigger, hotter card(s) but this seems a bit extreme. The fan's easily too loud to live with.
This is also the 2nd 2009MP if had - I returned the first machine because of a sizzling power supply. Both of these 2009MPs had this graphics card problem.
Any help would be great.
npj