Friday, August 26, 2011

Put an End to My Suffering ...

Too many happenings lately, My video card (9800GT) was acting weird today while playing Darksiders, the whole system would froze to the point that I can't summon the task manager and my only option was to make a hard reset. I thought it was a problem with directX so I installed the latest version but the freezing would still occur so I took the card out and cleaned it. For a moment it went back to normal then out of nowhere it suddenly froze again, so I did the same thing. But now the system can't detect my video card and when booting random characters would appear all over the screen. I searched various solutions but still no luck so I declared it dead. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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While I was browsing for replacements I bumped into a forum post where the OP claims that he resurrected his dead video card by putting it in a aluminum foil and heating it in an oven for a specific time. Yep sounds like a recipe for a baked potato and a very insane thing to do. But there is nothing to lose right? and my card is dead anyways so I followed his tutorial. After a while I put the card back on, not getting my hopes up I booted my PC and voila! it detected my card, no more random characters or freezes. My broken video card was resurrected, no kidding. I still can't believe this baking works, so awesome. Still don't know how long it will last but I'm very thankful.

Anyway I was planning to redesign my blog, its getting a tad old and wonky but I can't seem to find the right time as I am always tired after doing school work. I also tried shifting to Wordpress, unfortunately there isn't an option to edit your template's CSS. Well technically there is, you just have to shove some cash for it which I don't intend to ever do considering that it's free on blogger. I'm sure it's also free before, until they turned into a floozy fat cat. I'm also aiming to buy a domain but you know, I'm broke, always is. Though I'm still accepting donations, always was ( ̄ー ̄)

Btw, here is the oven trick thread and video. Also check out this great song (not related).

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