{"id":8462,"date":"2016-07-26T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2016-07-23T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:42:27","slug":"replacing-the-graphics-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8462","title":{"rendered":"Replacing the Graphics Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I predicted in the last blog post, my son’s PC received a new graphics adapter. Unlike the old one, this newer model featured 2GB of graphics memory. It also sports two fans, and to us that feature was appealing because we figured the issue was the system overheating. We were wrong.
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\nIn Figure 1, you see the new graphics card installed. I removed the old card and set it aside. Then I installed the new one. It ran beautifully and the temperature monitor shows that the card was running cooler than the other card.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. The new graphics card, installed.<\/p><\/div>\n

I removed the cover from the old card to examine its capacitors. I figured that they’d be bloated or “pregnant.” Alas, they were not. The old card is shown in Figure 2, and you can kind of see some of the capacitors. They were normal. That lead me to suspect that the card wasn’t really the problem.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. The old graphics card.<\/p><\/div>\n

After replacing the card, I also replaced the power supply with the 500W model I purchased earlier. I figured, “What the heck?”<\/p>\n

Then, after a few days of running the new card and power supply, the computer randomly reset. It reset while Simon was watching a YouTube video, which isn’t a great graphics draw.<\/p>\n

I explained to him that the only items remaining that could cause random resets are:<\/p>\n