The capacitors of my old video card blew up. There were four of them on the board and I think they gave up one at a time without me noticing. Months earlier, I would hear “plastic-ky” explosions in my room and I would search far and wide where it came from but would always end up empty-handed. There wasn’t any smoke and nothing smells burnt. Just the other day, I heard another one. I didn’t bother looking for its source and just carried on with what I was doing – playing World of Warcraft. Everything was okay until I decided to restart my computer. After it shut down, it didn’t boot. All the LEDs were still blinking normally and the fans seem to be working fine so I was able to deduce that the problem was with the video card. And it indeed was. There they were… 4 blown capacitors bleeding orange stuff.
Poor thing… and poor me – I need to buy a new one because of this. It’s a good thing that WoW can run on the built-in video card of my mobo. I can hold off any purchases for now.
Neil I can sell you a cheap HD4870 PCS+ if you want. I'll give it to you, discounted.
ReplyDeleteTPC Pricing: http://tipidpc.com/itemsearch.php?sec=s&namekeys=4870
Item gets there next week if you want.