[QUOTE=Somebody_404;34487509]You rate me a dumb because I asked an honest question? Sometimes it's more trouble fixing said item than to go out and buy a cheaper and better item. Aren't 8500's outdated anyway?[/QUOTE]
New video card: $50 - $500
New SMD capacitors: $0.15 each. Shipping: $6-7
Taking a bit of your time to fix something that's fixable is always worth it. Today's economy has become ridiculously disposable. A tiny little thing wrong with something and it must be trashed.
I had a similar situation where a friend bought a Radeon 9800 that had a snapped off dual voltage regulator. I found a replacement for a total of $7 and repaired it. It took about an hour since it was a SMD chip, but it was well worth it.
I also have an 8500GT, and it's still a decent card at lower resolutions. It can play Source on medium at 1280x1024 and maintain 50 fps.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;34484396]ok dude there's no denying you know your shit but you don't have to be so dickish about it[/QUOTE]
Also, he posted asking for advice... he didn't come across like he knew what to do.
What is it with FP? It just one massive contest between one another to one up the next person.
[QUOTE=bohb;34484976]I'm not waving my dick about what I do or don't know, I'm just sick of him posting terrible advice. I never post advice about things I know absolutely nothing about and I think most everyone should do the same.[/QUOTE]
This is a forum not professional tech support. Please watch your tone.
I have never seen you rectify any of my posts before so stop pulling statistics out of your ass.
Besides the resistor, capacitor mixup which I rectified in 5 minutes. My post is compleetly true.
Replacing resistors can overvolt parts behind them or kill the voltage regulator.
Rewiring a capacitor will cause unstable voltages but it still [U][B]might[/B][/U] work.
And it did work! it was just unstable like predicted.
For an accurate repair he should have followed the link I posted and got those capacitors. Not my fault he didnt bother.
I dont know why you feel the need to be a dick about this stuff but I did nothing wrong.
Once I blew up my motherboard's lower circuit by shorting the crushed resistor. Good thing that it was for fan connector regulation and my motherboard worked fine for a year until later when I did the stupidest thing of putting JP2 jumper over fan pin outs. That was the last time my motherboard celebrated with some pretty damn firework displays.
i soldered on some cheramic resistors which i got from some old CRT monitor circuit board
I didn't even bother to order those small SMD capacitors because hte shipping in my country would take about two or three weeks, even if I order from shops in my country
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]This is a forum not professional tech support. Please watch your tone.[/QUOTE]
This forum is also not for posting random misinformation and hoping it solves a problem and not fuck someone over.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]I have never seen you rectify any of my posts before so stop pulling statistics out of your ass.[/QUOTE]
I don't remember there being a forum rule that states that I'm always required to clean up your messes. Most of the time I see your posts and don't care because it wouldn't cause any permanent damage, this time is different.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]Besides the resistor, capacitor mixup which I rectified in 5 minutes. My post is compleetly true.[/QUOTE]
You "rectified" it by making it a huge convoluted mess that is hard to follow. If you had cleaned it up properly, you would have removed all references to it being a resistor, which you didn't. Instead, you added the capacitor bit below it where it's very difficult to see unless you read a wall of text. Many people skim and would be easily confused.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]Replacing resistors can overvolt parts behind them or kill the voltage regulator.[/QUOTE]
A resistor downstream from a VRM isn't going to damage the VRM, it will damage whatever parts are downstream.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]Rewiring a capacitor will cause unstable voltages but it still [U][B]might[/B][/U] work.
And it did work! it was just unstable like predicted.[/QUOTE]
Being unstable is not the same as working, it's still broken, just less broken.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]For an accurate repair he should have followed the link I posted and got those capacitors. Not my fault he didnt bother.[/QUOTE]
Fun fact: not all SMD ceramic capacitors are the same. Unless you have a schematic of the PCB telling you what exactly that part was, you don't know what the pF rating is. Using ceramic caps with insufficient ratings will cause stability issues and possibly explode from exceeding their load characteristics.
[QUOTE=taipan;34495112]I dont know why you feel the need to be a dick about this stuff but I did nothing wrong.[/QUOTE]
I don't know why you think people correcting your terrible misinformation constitutes as them being a dick. Nobody is attacking you, you're just making it worse by lashing out.
seriously
chill out
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