I’ve been having problems with my video card for some time now and found out over the summer when I took my computer apart and looked at it that the fan was broken on it causing it to over heat. I’ve managed to do without replacing it up until yesterday which was a pretty long stretch considering it was overheating on a regular basis and I’m sure it wasn’t doing any good to the rest of my computer. The computer was left on all day Tuesday which after finding out about the fan being broken on the card, I tried not to do because it’d cause my computer to lock up etc. etc. I figured that my mom would turn it off before she left my apartment on Tuesday.

When I got home from class, the computer had been in locked up state for quite a few hours so I restarted it thinking it’d be fine like it normally is but I was wrong; it wouldn’t load to the desktop because the graphics card kept restarting itself. I was irritated…and considering that my computer is about 4 years old now it was going to be hard to find an AGP style graphics card in a store. I got lucky and found one at Office Depot for $80 ($85 after tax) and my computer has only locked up twice since having it in. I plan on getting a laptop come January or possibly building a new PC all together so…hopefully this card will be fine until then.