Arghhh

jennidc · 13 Oct 2011 at 08:58

I'm having a bad morning so I thought I'd rant on here for a bit

After the disappointment of bulldozer reviews yesterday I thought I would cheer myself up by getting an old AM2 system working for my daughter so she can have WiFi and mine craft in her room without needing to borrow my laptop.

I removed the old faulty ATI gfx card and thought I'll use my spare 4850 from my old xfire setup (I sold 1 already after upgrading to 5850 Xtreme

).

I have somehow managed to lose my spare 4850 I have put it "safe" somewhere and I cannot find the damn thing. I wouldn't mind but its a massive card and I have looked everywhere ARGGHHH

Thanks for listening I feel better already

bedazzled · 13 Oct 2011 at 09:02

Ask Tommy Walsh

Admiral Huddy · 13 Oct 2011 at 09:10

I feel for you.. Tempt it out by flashing around a copy of BF3..

Last year I took out a customers HDD from a burnt out PC.. I put the HDD in a safe place to lift the data from to copy to a new system.. I never found the drive to this day.. Fortunately, when I told the client nearly a week later and countless sleepless night, they said there was nothing much on the drive anyway but I didn't know this at the time. They have been back since so obviosly wasn't an issue for her but it could have been soo very different.

jennidc · 13 Oct 2011 at 12:06

I've found the card - PC won't boot though - I think its properly broken as no beeps when booting just nothing onscreen and I know the card works. Think the PCI-E slot is faulty but as its an old A-bit AM2 board it only has one PCI-E

I've tried the usual remove the ram run on 2 sticks, etc

Might have to get a new board and PSU (this one is old school) - I may as well go DDR3 whilst I'm at it as well and get a Tri Core AM3 CPU