it was an improvised fan for the graphics card, i had it glued (with krazy glue (yes i know it's bad for electronics ) (it's a type of super glue btw) ) to the side of the case, because the fan on the graphics card was totally broken, and it was overheating, and it actually worked for a while, but the top of the attachment came loose, and made it start vibrating, so i went to stop the fan and then lift it up (it usually will vibrate because the fan isn't sitting right in the housing) but as the top had seperated, when i pushed down, the entire thing came off, and it hit the corner of the graphics card...... there are more peices around me btw, thank god i had it in a server case.... would have been a much bigger problem if it hadn't been.... but the only other card i have isn't linux friendly..... (once the linux kernel loads, the entire screen blanks and shuts off) so now i have no graphics card that works.... and it's a dual 2.4 ghz xeon cpu computer too.... 500 gb sata hard drive in it currently.... though it supports up to 8 sata drives in a hardware raid array, it has 2gb of ram too... not that good in terms of ram though.... i'm gonna have a tough time ahead of me trying to get that thing to work..