http://blog.xcski.com/2005/11/07/hey-maybe-this-time-its-not-the-hard-drive Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:38:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.xcski.com/2005/11/07/hey-maybe-this-time-its-not-the-hard-drive#comment-1505 Rants and Revelations » Need a new graphics card Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:37:56 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/11/07/hey-maybe-this-time-its-not-the-hard-drive#comment-1505 [...] I did the Ultimate Boot CD diagnostics that I wrote about in this previous post. And DFT said nothing was wrong with the drive, several memory and CPU testers found nothing wrong with either of them. And of course, I still have that message about the video card. So I’m thinking it’s almost certainly the video card. [...] [...] I did the Ultimate Boot CD diagnostics that I wrote about in this previous post. And DFT said nothing was wrong with the drive, several memory and CPU testers found nothing wrong with either of them. And of course, I still have that message about the video card. So I’m thinking it’s almost certainly the video card. [...]

]]> http://blog.xcski.com/2005/11/07/hey-maybe-this-time-its-not-the-hard-drive#comment-1504 Steve Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:14:20 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/11/07/hey-maybe-this-time-its-not-the-hard-drive#comment-1504 Can't you just drop a crappy old PCI video card (what, you don't have three or four in a box somewhere?) in and see how the XP install goes? Can’t you just drop a crappy old PCI video card (what, you don’t have three or four in a box somewhere?) in and see how the XP install goes?

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