Hardware fail!
August 21st, 2008It looks like my video card was going bad. I definitely prefer that outcome to my motherboard needing to be replaced. Aside from cost it’s a pain in the arse to remove CPU fans.
I swung by Best Buy after work and picked up a dinky little PNY nVidia 8600 GT to test things. Plugged it in and the monitor sprung to life… current plan is to return this card to Best Buy and get a much better one from NewEgg for about the same price.
In other news, my dad may be sending some money my way in the way of a Christmas advance for a Mac mini! Now I just have to play the waiting game and hope Apple rolls out an updated line in September…
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
sometimes cpu fans aren’t hard to replace… but remember that time we built one and discovered that AMD’s hate having their fan touched?