Good evening guys!
Man, you wouldn’t believe what happened this past 3 days.
When I got back from work on Tuesday night, my PC monitor wasn’t responding even though my CPU is running fine. As I was too tired after work, I thank God for the early rest and tuck myself into bed.
After work on Wednesday, I eagerly rush back to solve the mysterious problem that had befall on my computer.
After some assumptions, I think my graphics card is spoiled. Bingo. I’ve hit the jackpot after I borrowed another graphics card from Timothy to test my assumptions.
Thank God I manage to negotiate some cash from my mum to buy a new graphics card and also possibly a new power supply for my new power-hungry card.
This is the first time I manage to get such a huge amount from my mother, praise the Lord, possibly could be due to it being a loan therefore she gave it to me, LOL!
But I believe otherwise that God is good at opening up ways for us, yeah.
So happily to Sim Lim Square I went on early Thursday afternoon, after deciding on what card I wanted to buy the previous night.
After selecting the card, I asked whether a 300W is enough to power the new card but the technician said no and directed me to a wide range of power supply unit (PSU) at the other part of the shop. Oh yes in case you want some shops for recommendation at Sim Lim Square (SLS), go to the ones called Fuwell and
However…….I wasn’t sure whether the PSU is able to fit into my HP casing so I opted to buy just the card first and test whether it works on my 300W PSU.
Once I reached home….a weird problem came up.
After placing the new card into my CPU, everything is running but still no display on the monitor. So I thought maybe there wasn’t enough power so I call it a day and plan what PSU to buy today.
Man…it is so unbearable not to have a computer man. Especially for an IT guy like me…I feel a little….uneasy.
When I wanted to learn something, it’s on the computer.
When I wanted to watch some anime or shows…it’s on the computer.
When I wanted to chat with somebody…………………………it’s on the computer.
When I just want to read something……………………………………..IT’S ON THE COMPUTER!
DAMN!
I am so crippled without it!
Finally I turned to written materials.
The Bible and my church’s magazine gave my heart some peace and serenity at my dire situation, thank God for His Word man.
Thank God thank God thank God!
This few days without computer has re-instilled in me patience man. Patience and waiting upon Him.
Also my hand that has been seriously overworked for the past 1 and a half year finally has some decent rest, thank God it did not developed into Repetitive Strain Injury, a common problem among us armchair warriors LOL.
So finally came early Friday afternoon, which is today.
I went down to purchase my 480W power supply and came back quickly, wanting so much to use the PC again.
To my horror, the display didn’t show up again.
WHHHHHHHHHHHHY?!?
I called Timothy and he told me to bring the graphics card over to test on his computer which I did and we both found out, Fuwell gave me a faulty card!!!!
MANNNNN I have to go down SLS again!!!!
After much traveling and waiting, I got my card changed.
This time, I went back EXTREMLY quickly and pop the card in.
Voila it works!
However….it was stuck on the boot screen….and I was like….huh?
After much test again, I found out the problem lies with my old hard disk.
Some of the gold pin connectors were bended and went into the hard disk itself….mannnnnnn!
I reluctantly disconnect the hard disk, unable to access the data that was inside. One day, I’ll get some professional to extract the data from the plates that made up the hard disk and I’ll get it back!
Here is a picture of the hard disk that was disconnected =(
Sigh, anyway I power up the PC and got into Windows, updated everything and finally came online.
Feeling a little excited at the power of my new graphics card, I took out one of the latest game that I had, Need for Speed: Carbon, which was a graphically intense game that my old graphics card choked when there was too much activity on the screen.
Loading was EXTREMLY fast with the old very tone down settings that I set for my old graphics card. I immediately set EVERYTHING to the max and oh my God it ran so smoothly and beautifully!
Truly it was worth the money!
Here, this is my new graphics card:
Thank God for teaching my patience man, otherwise I think I would have gone bonkers a long time ago.
I took care of Sleepy today….man it was so tiring.
My dog is such a hyperactive one. But thank God she’s asleep now LOL.
Alright I got to go sleep now…got to wake up early tomorrow.
Good night and God bless!