Hey everyone. I was recently sorting my pile of computer hardware and I found a Sapphire Radeon 9800 128MB AGP video card. It's not a very powerful card, but it's definitely better than the Geforce MX440 that's in my secondary computer.
I popped it in and powered on, but nothing happened. The screen displayed the "No signal" message. I checked the card, and it turns out that the fan on the heatsink wasn't even working. I took the card out to examine it closely, and it looks as if the fan froze up some how and the card overheated. The fan was difficult to spin with my fingers. I looked at the heatsink fins and there was a rust-colored dust =/. On the fan itself, the ATI sticker had cracked and looked off-color. Anybody have any idea what happened? Any suggestions as to what I can do?