BobTheSlob
Limp Gawd
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- Feb 16, 2002
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Alright this is the gist of it. I while ago I put my 9800 Pro in. Then like a year later, I was pulling it out and I somehow *forgot* the proper way to remove the power cable. There is a connector ON the video card, and that connector goes to the actual detachable connector. I tried my hardest to pull off the connector ON the video card.
This is what I tried my hardest to pull off.
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg100r/fubar_9800.jpg
So once I realized what an idiot I was, I put the card back in to see what happened. The fan no longer spun. Slowly over another year it got looser and looser and now, I can't even boot up a computer with that card in it. It just says the 9800 Pro power connector is not connected. Please connect it.
I'm fairly sure the brown burn marks are from the electrical tape I put on it trying to keep it booting.
Well, it IS connected as far as I know. But it doesn't work. I bought this card from Tyan and they can't fix it. They don't even do video cards anymore.
I don't know what to do =( Is it fixable? Anyone help?
This is what I tried my hardest to pull off.
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg100r/fubar_9800.jpg
So once I realized what an idiot I was, I put the card back in to see what happened. The fan no longer spun. Slowly over another year it got looser and looser and now, I can't even boot up a computer with that card in it. It just says the 9800 Pro power connector is not connected. Please connect it.
I'm fairly sure the brown burn marks are from the electrical tape I put on it trying to keep it booting.
Well, it IS connected as far as I know. But it doesn't work. I bought this card from Tyan and they can't fix it. They don't even do video cards anymore.
I don't know what to do =( Is it fixable? Anyone help?