I just owned my computer...

Jemburula · 2007-05-16T06:22:36

Hello everyone, I am buying a brand new PC in a month or so time, but I bought my a new Dell 24" WFP the other day because I was able to get such a great discount on it. I figured my Radeon 9600 Pro could handle it so I plugged the monitor in and booted up, everything was fine for a few minutes in native but then I heard my graphics card resetting (I believe. It sounds like a power off/power on cycle). I've had hell with that graphics card, the fan on it has always been extremely loud and should really be replaced, but I figured out that I could just unplug the GPU fan and it would run fine anyway. In my infinite wisdom, I decided to take the GPU heatsink off and give it a quick dusting off, in the process I broke one of the plastic pins that hold the heatsink in to place. Not to mention, I also managed to snap off the wire of the GPU fan. Trust me, I'm not stupid.... I was just having a really bad day and hardware has never been my thing. I tied the GPU heatsink back in to place with the wire I had snapped off of the fan (I bet your rolling your eyes by now) and put a case fan directly aimed at the heatsink (about 1cm away). So I boot up, the computer fails to detect my IDE drives and says "INSERT SYSTEM DISK...". Bugger, rebooted a few more times and figured out that it now only detects the drives spasmodically. The other problem being that when I am windows now, I get strange blue line artifacts, as well as the graphics card still resetting. I tried taking out the graphics card again and putting it back in to place. Previously I had put the card tilted slightly down so my DVI cable would fit. No luck. I made sure my IDE cables were firmly in their sockets and gave my CPU heatsink a quick dusting, but nothing is different. Is all hope lost for my faithful companion? Thanks for your help, much appreciated. You all probably think I am a dill now Edit: Now whenever windows begins to load (right before the actual loading screen), my computer resets.

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Started by Jemburula April 28, 2007 07:57 PM

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May 15, 2007 10:17 PM

Please share names!

I've had overall good experiences with Newegg.com for several years, btw, if that helps.

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Jemburula

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May 16, 2007 06:22 AM

Nintek, an online group in Western Australia. They were quite popular but apparently they have gone down hill :( I could try newegg, I've heard about it alot, but I think I will attempt to exhaust a few Australian options first. Can't figure out which brand of 8800 GTX to go for... no one sells the EVGA! Thankyou all for the replies btw, very helpful :)

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