Introduction
I ended up lubricating the heat sink fan on an NVIDIA GeForce GTS240 whilst looking for the cause of a PC error from it.
During the last couple of months I had some serious errors (about 4) reported on my HP Z620 PC.
These were two of the error reports:
- 928 – Fatal PCIe error. PCIe error detected Slot 2 Completion timeout.
- 928 – Fatal PCIe error. PCIe error detected Slot 2 Surprise link down error.
All the errors pointed to either a Slot 2 problem or a problem with my NVIDIA GeForce GTS240 Display Adapter in that slot. I hoped the problem (which is intermittent and very occasional) would go away if I reseated the Display Adapter in its PCIe card slot.
This article describes what I did next and how I ended up lubricating the heat sink fan.
Continue reading “Lubricating The Heat Sink Fan On A GeForce GTS240”