funny story here. I powered down my machine and noticed a brown spider sitting next to my gtx 590 air vent. I figured it was fried from the temperature of the gpu and went and got a Kleenex to smoosh it. I didn't want to get yucky spider on my pc so I tried to gently grab it and to my surprise it darted into my gtx 590 heatsink. I didn't want to chance anything so I took the graphics card out of the pc and got a pair of tweezers. I fought with the spider for a while until it squeezed being the plastic fan shroud and the pcb where I couldn't reach it or see it. I've been waiting here since, and not sure what to do lol. I can go away and wait for it to leave, but I will never really know if it's gone without taking the 590 apart, or sit here for hours waiting for it to leave, which I don't want to do. Any ideas?

Wait for him to crawl out with camera in hand and take a pic!

Just power it on and melt the sucker. I can't see that borking your card.

Lol that's funny. :x

Wait I thought step 3 was profit Bam?
 
In all seriousness your not the first person to have a spider crawl in their card. I would use compressed air to get it out if possible, but plenty of people have run a card with a spider inside without even knowing it. I guess there is a chance it could cause a problem, but the % of that happening has to be very low.

Put the graphics card in and turn evga precision and put fan speed to 100 percent while having a camcorder behind your pc and wait for the magic to happen. :D

Wait for the Spider to come out and let him bite you on the hand ...

Well I went and watched a movie and came back. Still can't see the spider. Not really sure if he even left or not. I don't have a can of compressed air but I do have an air compressor so I think I will take the card out to the garage and spray some air into it. Too be honest I hate spiders and I'm a little scared to touch the card lol. I guess I just have to be a man. 

RMA that sucker! LOL!!

Pics or didn't happen!                

bigbrag

Well I went and watched a movie and came back. Still can't see the spider. Not really sure if he even left or not. I don't have a can of compressed air but I do have an air compressor so I think I will take the card out to the garage and spray some air into it. Too be honest I hate spiders and I'm a little scared to touch the card lol. I guess I just have to be a man. 

many of us are scared of spiders. Don't feel bad for that.

ransan309

Depending on where OP hails from he might want to use a little caution. Mr spider might be a Brown Recluse which happens to be poisionous and can deliver a very nasty bite. Id try to blast that sucker out with compressed air like others have stated, and promptly squash him flat.[:D

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ummm yea.... +1 for that. Thats kinda what i was thinking. Im fairly positive he lives someplace warm because here in North Dakota, the spiders are definitely not back out yet. We're just NOW beginning to thaw... hahaha

yeah, here in virginia at least... if it's big and brown... could be a wolf or a brown recluse... don't wanna ever get close enough to find out definitively... common house spider though... no biggie.
 
still... we never resolved the step 3 issue... step 3 is always profit.

Good thing my pet Tarantula won't do this to me, he's simply half the size of my 580 :)

If it has a fiddle on its back its a Recluse. Otherwise prob just a Wolfspider or something like that. Either way just be carefull