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Originally Posted by theducks
Check your Video card for a bad/clogged fan (or heatsink fins). I now buy 'fanless' (I am not a Gamer) cards , after losing many to bad fans.
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After thinking about your suggestion for a while, I decided to open the case and check out the fan on my video card, since I don't remember a fan being on the card. Well, it's on the bottom of the card, and I'm positive I forgot about it being there, since I bought this Nvidia GEForce 9500 card a long time ago (probably when I hooked up my large-screen TV to my computer in 2004, but I could have bought a newer card at some time after that).
Anyway, I didn't intentionally lie when I said I had sprayed the fan if there was one. I will take that back and say that I had not sprayed the video card fan. It had lots of dust in it, there was dust caked on the blades, and the fan was not spinning. I wasn't surprised. So, I took the card out, took it apart, cleaned it all real good, screwed the 11 screws back in, and sprayed the inside of the case out (there was not much dust, since I had recently done that). Turned on the computer, and the fan is still not spinning (I didn't expect it to, though). So, I black-taped an extra new front-case fan that I had to the bottom middle of the case and hooked it into a power connector. So, we'll see if anything I just did helps solve any problems I've had in the last couple of months.
Thank you for that suggestion! I will buy a new video card when I order the motherboard and CPU. I'm not a gamer (other than playing Keno at videopoker dot com), but I'm looking at buying a Z370 MB motherboard and the i7-8700K CPU. Just have to figure out which Z370 motherboard to buy. I can install the hardware, but I don't keep up on motherboards and CPU chips much until it's time to upgrade them again.