February 10, 2006 11:38 AM
So the other day I came home from work and there was this horrible noise coming from my PC so I poked all the fans and determined that it was the one on my video card causing it. Time to get a new one. I ordered one on Tuesday night and it arrived yesterday, so last night I had the daunting task of attaching this new beast to my lovely video card.
Problem #1: Getting the original pins out. I had to squish them through the holes. I found this out after some minutes of pulling with pliers.
Problem #2: No acetone. I needed some to remove the old crud from the video CPU ... I used nail polish remover, it worked ok, but it didn't get it as clean as I would have liked.
Problem # 3: Attaching the heat sinc. Now for people with the normal version of my video card, this wouldn't present a problem. How ever, mine has a large block which is the TV-in part of the card. This was in the way of the fins, so I had to bend a couple of them out of the way to make it fit. I don't think it will present a problem. Nothing was on fire when I left this morning.
So hopefully I shouldn't have any more noisy issues. Next on the handyman list: creating a system whereby I can easily swap my xbox hard drives. I have a drive caddy, but I need two drawers and I'm going to have to cut into my xbox case ... bit scared about that, but I can always get a new case ... I think. After that I might actually finish the case mod that I started here :
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