[Leaplist] so, dead nv part?

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 05:23:46 pm Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Things to attempt ...
> - Reset the video cable (just-in-case)

I tried that first just for giggles, but the disk parks and Windows apparently 
never even starts, freezing after the boot logo disappears.

> - Reset the AGP card

Worth a shot.

> - Try another power supply

I don't have any spares, unfortunately.  It's a really nice Silverstone 500EF 
or 550EF, heavy, good caps, and so forth.  Anything is possible, but I hope 
it's not the power supply.  The prior that died was I think a 400 CoolMax PSU 
or some nonsense.  One of two, both I've had in production have failed now.  
(I tend to spent ~ $100 on PSUs now...)

> -- Bryan
>
> P.S.  Guess what?  I have an extra GeForce 6800GT 256MiB AGP
> if you're interested.  Not, 6600GT, but a nice, 2x butt-kicking 6800GT.  ;)

Sounds nice -- I found my old 6600GT.  Not sure if it works.  The box stopped 
turning on reliably in 2006 and eventually the power supply died.  I replaced 
it, but it started crashing constantly.

I reversed the flow of one of the side fans and it's been fine ever, since, but 
that was with the 7600-GS.  I swapped the 6600GT thinking it was damaged, but 
maybe it was only overheating as the 7600-GS was...

If it's broken, maybe I'll take you up on the offer.  I probably remember 
reading a post by you six years ago about your 6800GT... ;)  At the time I 
likely had a Ti4200 or the truly awful ATI 9600-SE, with 64-bit memory bus!  
That was _worthless_!

-- 

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