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[Ezekiel]

Well, I started up my computer today, and a little after start up my screen started to look a bit odd. Colors off, shit getting pixelated and severely distorted. I've seen this before, I knew it was my graphics card.

I opened up my computer to see if anything was wrong. I start looking over my graphics card to look it over. I didn't see anything amiss, other then a lot of dust. So I grabbed my compressed air can and cleaned the dust off.

And that's when I heard it, a slight clank noise, like a screw being tossed around inside the computer. Only, against my luck, it wasn't screw. It was one of the capacitors off the graphics card. . . when I installed it over a year ago, I must have knocked it loose, and after moving it out of the way yesterday to hook up another computer to my monitor to fix it for a friend of my Mom's computer must have broken the shoddy connection the capacitor once had.

Seeing as my warranty is up on the card, I'm going to let my Dad give it a go at soldering it back on. So if that doesn't work out I may be out of any games for a month or two, till I make my next computer. As I'll be down to my laptop only.

[The Drizzle]

Grab that soldering iron and go to work If the cap is bad, you can buy new ones for cheap, I cant remember where tho.

[Ezekiel]

I will be letting my Dad try to solder it back on. Seeing as he's had plenty of experience doing so. But there's always the chance the board could get damaged doing so. So, yeah, here's hoping it all works out later today.

[Novahawk]

Hope everything works out, and you don't have to wait

[monster]

Or you can buy my x800..... heh

[wyte mafia]

prick lol /\ /\ /\

[dar_tana]

Ouch that absolutely sucks.
What you got on your laptop?

Btw, my favorite sentence:
"I start looking over my graphics card to look it over."

[Inertia]

Well you said it doesnt get much worse..... Go Bears lol

[onyx]

I've soldered capacitors back onto cards a couple of times, and they both worked.

Both times i knocked them off because I'm a clumsy bastard

[Ezekiel]

Well I officially give up on life. Nothing goes right for me anymore. Nothing. This weekend went from a minor annoyance, to fuck the world and drive 110 in a 40 home from watching the Super Bowl.

To update:

1) The graphics card. I got it soldered and fixed, I put it in and it breaks..... I find out because my motherboard is retarded the IDE (Yes, I use IDE for my drives. I was on a budget when I built this computer 1.5 years ago.) is just high enough that it breaks off that capacitor when the graphics card is inserted.

So basically there's no way of getting that card back into my computer.

Meaning I wont be gaming PC-wise for a few months.

2) 1 hour after my PC broke, before I left for a Super Bowl Party, the water pipes in the wall that lead to the upstairs kitchen freeze and burst open. Dumping 8 inches of water into our downstairs bathroom and laundry room.

We now have to tear out a wall of the bathroom (That we just finished remodeling and rewalling back in the Sumer.) and make another route of piping to the upstairs kitchen, so we don't have the potential from this to happen again.

As of now, we have absolutely no water in our house, say some ice in the freezer. And it doesn't look like we will till at least Tuesday.


To top it all off, after busting my ass to help clean up all the water, I go to a Super Bowl Party, after seeing that the Bears were winning. Only to get there to see them losing, and to then lose the game horribly.

Fuck life, fuck the world. I never get a fucking break.

[The Drizzle]

Was the card AGP? If it was a pci-e card, you can just buy your new video card now(assuming you have most of the funds) and use it with the old pc untill you get the rest of your parts.

[Silent Bob]

Hang tough, Zeke. You'll come out of this slump a stronger man.

[Ezekiel]

Was the card AGP? If it was a pci-e card, you can just buy your new video card now(assuming you have most of the funds) and use it with the old pc untill you get the rest of your parts.

PCI-e, and no, that won't work. I have currently a 7800GT. If I get any of the cards I was loking at for my next computer, there's no way those things would fit in. My current card is half the size of most newer cards. Just wouldn't be possible.

Plus, I was waiting on my tax return to build my computer, which I wont be getting till mid March.

[ghozy]

wow thats a bad weekend. sorry to hear those man. I hope everything gets fixed soon.

[Stoned Hatter]

i hope things turn around for you soon man

[dar_tana]

Wow, and I thought I had it bad. What can you do on your laptop?

[Ezekiel]

Wow, and I thought I had it bad. What can you do on your laptop?

Company of heroes. I've tried CS:S on it, it runs, but, even with a wired mouse, it doesn't have the power to process rapid mouse movements and CS:S. I'll move the mouse and about 1/2 a second later my aimer will move. Not very effective.

It means I'll only have the capibility to play EVE, CoH, Diablo 2, and Starcraft.

Basically I'll be playing EVE a bit more, but mostly renewing my long lost friendship with my consoles. . . While hoping my laptop can server as a gateway for my 360 to access xbox live. . . Seeing that's what my desktop did.

[Aziz]

Very unfortunate, man. No one has it easy though... but, um, i was for the Colts

[Splunk]

Coulda been worse, your computer could have blown up...

[SuHh]

thats just too bad man.. im feelin for u... at least ur alive in one piece eh? :D