Wish it was always this easy (PC woes)

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I was right: it was a hardware problem, specifically the video card.  I've never seen a capacitor "pop" before: there are seven on the card, the size of pencil erasers, and five of them blew their tops out.  Wow, guess that's a problem.

I have ordered a new card.  It ought to be here by Thursday: this one has a fan on-board, so as long as the power supply on my IBM can handle it (and I've no reason to think it can't) I should be back in business.

On to work.

Comments

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

In my gaming rig I run 2 512M XFX 8800GTs in SLI configuration. I love them. Pretty much always go nVidia chipset.

Bummer on the AGP though. I tend to like PCIExpress more. At least it's not ATI. Have had horrible luck with ATI cards.

My main bitch right now is that my gaming rig is a Windows box and XP SP2 (in any 32 bit flavor) chokes on my 8Gb (only recognizes 3Gb as addressable.) So, I'm probably going to upgrade to 64-bit Vista (because it's free and I don't rely on the gaming rig for anything even remotely resembling productivity... besides... "know your enemy" and all that Lao Tzu crap.)

- Jeho

Edit: corrected spelling mistakes.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, AGP is all my motherboard supports. It also doesn't have a SATA port. Poor outdated little thing.