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Saturday, 20 April 2002
Jeff vs. The Computer

Once again, my bad luck with computer parts continues.

Last night, I bought a GeForce4 Ti4400 video card. I've always bought cheap video cards, which I finally realized doesn't make a whole lot of sense since I do a lot of graphics work. So I bought one that's not top of the line, but it's pretty far up there.

So I uninstalled my previous video card's drivers, shut down the machine, opened it up, pulled out the old card, put in the new one... and one of the components on the video card snapped off because the motherboard's power connector was in the way.

I could simply solder it back on, but then I'd still run into the same problem — the card wouldn't fit. So I soldered two short pieces of wires to where it was supposed to connect, then soldered the component to the wires. An ugly hack, but it worked.

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