GRoK This!

The video card did it in the billiard room with a lead pipe

I've finally gotten my computer back up and running. Since the last post on this, I bought new RAM, but that didn't cure it. So, I looked once more on the web, and they mentioned the video card. I had thought it unlikely that that was the case, but then I noticed that the new motherboard had a VGA port on the back panel. So, I removed the video card and plugged the monitor into the motherboard. Voila, it worked. So, I went out and got a new video card, a PNY GeForce FX5200 and put it into my system. It's not the top-of-the-line card, but I don't have any time for video games anymore, so it should be good enough. This must have been a multiple failure, because I tried the video card on the old CPU and motherboard, and that didn't work. So now my system has a new motherboard, CPU, power supply, RAM and video card. Nearly a whole new computer.

BTW, CompUSA was having a 9pm-midnight sale on Thanksgiving. I thought I'd pop on in there, buy the new card, and get back home quickly. Boy, was I wrong. When I got there, the store was full, and there was a line of about 200 people waiting to get inside. I nixed the plan and came back the next day, when there were no crowds.

Posted at 05:37AM Nov 26, 2006 by Gary Kephart in Computers  |  Comments[0]