nvidia cards don't last

>>60939780
You should probably post this on reddit

/r/ayymd will fall for this bait immediately, they will probably start a petition about it and contact their local congressman

>>60939780
>after 15 years the electrolyte in a capacitor dried out
who would have though

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>>60939790
Yet all the caps on the motherboard have not. VIA is a more solid GPU manufactor.

From now on I'm only buying VIA GPUs and CPUs.

>>60939788
Would I post this here if I had a redshit account? I don't go there, not even when someone sends me links.

>card almost as old as OP doesn't work anymore
oh wow neat

>>60939819
try a little less hard to bait next time

subtler is always better

>>60939780
>nvidia cards don't last

True. My 9800pro and X800XL both run fine but my 8800GTX died after just 4 years.

>>60939780
>>60939819

Well, it may very well be that the nvidia card is fine.

First I got no picture on the nvidia card, so I tried the motherboards VGA connector and I got the BIOS. I then unscrewed the nvidia card and went on to boot the system.

It went ahead and started loading GNU/Linux off the whopping 80 GB HDD and then I got a strange kernel panic. I rebooted and I got nothing. Now I only get some beep beep beep's when I turn it on.

I now declare this system dead. RIP. It had a good run.

>>60939921
kek

check the capacitors for bulging (in the psu too) and clean RAM contacts with ethanol, see if that helps

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>>60939964
I unplugged the sound blaster live card and unlugged the RAM stick and cleaned the contact on it and it actually let me boot.

I can't say using this computer is a joy, it's kind of .. slow.

>>60939895
this

i have a gt240, a gtx480, two 8800gtx's and a 660ti here, all dead

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>>60939780
This is why you buy ATI
It still just werks