Horrible Horrible News

Posted by DesertFox on July 11, 2006, 4:09 p.m.

This is so horrible, it has to be pinned as a news topic. It has to!

My graphics card burnt out. Literally. The wires to the GFX Card fan are charred. Somehow, some stuff got in the bearing and gummed it up. Something orange - I have no clue what it is.

Which means: I can't use surfaces which means: I can't use gamemaker 6.1 which means: I can't work on Pawned or anything else!

Which is so horrible - I'll have to shell out a hundred bucks or so to get a new one! Say…… anyone got a paypal account that I can hack into?…

Of course, my GFX card was 3 years old, 128 mB…

So yeah, the wires are charred so bad one broke. I burned my finger touching it.

Everything else is okay though. I hope.


This is dumb. My monitor breaks, so I have to buy a new 1 - 150$US on sale. Then my network adapter busts, 50$US on sale. And now my GFX card crisps - XX?$US (sale, hopefully)

This is getting to be annoying. Whats next, my processor?


I guess this means I'll be playing a lot of Tiberian Sun and Renegade and RA2 until I get a new GFX card…

Comments

Adventus 18 years, 5 months ago

I know how it feels, my computers been struck by lighting going through the telephone lines twice.

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I'm gonna get This!ATI Radeon 256 mB for 70$US w00t!
Dont be suckered into it by the 256mb, With that card it could infact have a negative affect due to higher latency… and no games except the newest one need more than 128mb, which you wont be playing with that card anyway. Unless you absolutely dont have an AGP slot, go for an Nvidia 6600GT.

Hootiehoo 18 years, 5 months ago

Haha.

My computer inexplicably died and won't start up (startup virus? Unlikely), so hopefully, I'll get a new one with a better graphics card, sound card, and processor. =]

Josea 18 years, 5 months ago

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Whats next, my processor?
Luckily it wasn't, if your video card burned it emans a short circuit, or a electric overflow went heck there, and luckily it just burned teh video card. This PC got badly burned like 2 months ago, the whoel motherboard, processor and RAM got owned, err, burned.

Snakeman 18 years, 5 months ago

something tells me that your comp. is going to self destruct in 3…2…1… Boom. Well, now that you're dead, can I have your FoxBadge? XD

DesertFox 18 years, 5 months ago

I'm still alive!

Hootiehoo 18 years, 5 months ago

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I'm still alive!
:,(

JK