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A Rookie's Disastrous Attempts at Modifying Graphics CardMan ends up ruining his card |
By Traian Teglet, Technology News Editor
20th of June 2008, 07:45 GMT
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Come on people, get with the program, will you? I mean, how hard can it be? If you have a problem or you just don't know how to do something for the very first time, just open a browser page, turn to Google and search for an answer to help you out of your dilemma. Just don't go around and break things just because you think only your actions will get things done.
In my daily search on the great wide web, amid all the reviews
for NVIDIA' and AMD's latest releases, I also stumbled upon a rather oldish post, simply dubbed "Idiotic Video Card Mod". It was precisely this title that got all my undivided attention and, as you will see below, what should also work for you - thus somehow making the fact that it happened several months ago seem less important.
The post was written by someone who was asking for help with his newly bought NVIDIA graphics card. Nothing interesting so far but, on further reading, I found out that the cry for help came just a little too late. Apparently, a certain user (the poster) tried to upgrade his Dell Dimension 2350 desktop system with an NVIDA 7800 graphics card (there's no way to confirm that the pictured card really belonged to the user). After buying the card and opening up his system, the "genius" came to realize that the card he had bought did not fit in any of his system's expansion slots. That's what you get for trying to stick an AGP card in a PCI slot.
But hey, he got so far, right? Why stop here and now, since he could certainly find a solution to this one? So, he went along and modified the card's bus interface, chopping it up so it would fit his system. Happy with what he had accomplished, he went ahead and started up his Dell Dimension to try out his new card. As most of you would have probably already realized, it did not work. This is where the guy stopped and decided to ask for someone's opinion but, sadly, he was not able to also provide a picture of his card in order to better illustrate the kind of predicament he was in.
Now, I bet that the users on that forum certainly had a good laugh when they heard the story, after which they probably informed the "hardware wiz" in question that he had just ruined his newly purchased card. In all fairness, no one can really say if this was a real story (as genuine as it might sound) or if someone just wanted to have a bit of fun, but there definitely is one thing we can learn from this: If you don't know how to do something, ask first and chop later!
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