Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS

[ratdude747]

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Will do once I can walk around again (toe surgery recovery) and Iget real flux (a felt tipped flux pen won't work, right?)

[ratdude747]

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I bought some Paste flux in a syringe at Fry's Today. I oven reflowed it tonight.

So far, It looks to have been a success:

The setup:



A shot while booting Mageia 2 from a usb stick:



Once I got to the desktop, the graphics kept on lagging, which I suspect is a driver bug, not a card fault.

Comments?

[Uranium-235]

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son of a bitch I think thats nearly the same model 8800 GTS I have in storage, except mine is half the ram

nice find. If you ever tried the goodwill in DFW they would of probably listed it as $100 untested AS-IS no returns. They're still idiots over there, I wish I could of changed things.

[momaka]

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I bought some Paste flux in a syringe at Fry's Today. I oven reflowed it tonight.
So far, It looks to have been a success:

Sweet!
I like the shiny paint on that Ole Blue .

Once I got to the desktop, the graphics kept on lagging, which I suspect is a driver bug, not a card fault.

Most likely yes. I've had that happen multiple times when trying to install the latest and "greatest" drivers for some old graphics cards. It's best to stick to an older but proven version.
I say give it a try in Windows with both old and new drivers and see what happens.

[ratdude747]

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Sweet!
I like the shiny paint on that Ole Blue .


Most likely yes. I've had that happen multiple times when trying to install the latest and "greatest" drivers for some old graphics cards. It's best to stick to an older but proven version.
I say give it a try in Windows with both old and new drivers and see what happens.

That was mandriva usingNouveau... no Windows since that would require a HDD to try. I am out of decent HDDs that I could use... If I ever get a decent case and a HDD for that, I may make it into a multimedia rig.

[momaka]

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I am out of decent HDDs that I could use..

You don't need a "decent" HDD to make a test Windows install . Anything with 3 GB or more will do. I have several sub 20 GB ones that I use exactly for that purpose (one of them being an old 3.2 GB Quantum BigFoot 5.25" HDD that occasionally gets stuck heads ).

[ratdude747]

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You don't need a "decent" HDD to make a test Windows install . Anything with 3 GB or more will do. I have several sub 20 GB ones that I use exactly for that purpose (one of them being an old 3.2 GB Quantum BigFoot 5.25" HDD that occasionally gets stuck heads ).

Most of my spares died... I think I have a WD 7200RPM 20gb unit, but its IDE and the board only has one port (I hear mixing opticals and modernish HDDs on the same cable is a bad idea). I am also out of SATA opticals; I only have 2 and both are in use.

The reason I am pretty sure the card wasn't the issue was that my mouse pointer was okay speed wise... I think hardware accelerated pointers is enabled by default though.

Bottom line is that until I fond a decent case, its kinda useless to me.

[momaka]

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I hear mixing opticals and modernish HDDs on the same cable is a bad idea

Don't listen, try it.
I do it all of the time without problem. Most of the time I don't even have an 80 pin cable (which is the recommended route if mixing HDDs and opticals) so I use a 40 pin cable. And even so, the only downside of that is that the HDD is limited to UDMA mode 2 (33 MB/s max). With 80 pin, the HDD will work at whatever max the board/HDD supports and the optical drive will work at just mode 2. That's not really a problem with your 20 GB HDD since it will likely never do 33 MB/s continuous anyways.

[ratdude747]

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I see. The last problem is that I don't have time to try right now... although mageia 2's stable release just came out today... maybe that is more stable?

[Uranium-235]

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...With 80 pin, the HDD will work at whatever max the board/HDD supports and the optical drive will work at just mode 2. That's not really a problem with your 20 GB HDD since it will likely never do 33 MB/s continuous anyways.

its not 80 pin, its 40 pin 80 wire. each data wire is interleaved with a ground wire to decrease interference. There is no 'dual channel' PATA like what you're implying.

[ratdude747]

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I took the cover off the heatsink... there was more dust in there that I originally thought...

at leas the cage fan has a delta motor in it...

[c_hegge]

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Good. Those hamster wheel fans are a nightmare to find replacments for

[momaka]

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its not 80 pin, its 40 pin 80 wire. each data wire is interleaved with a ground wire to decrease interference. There is no 'dual channel' PATA like what you're implying.

Yeah, I hope nobody tried to look for 80-pin cables after reading that post . Thanks for correcting that typo.

Those hamster wheel fans are a nightmare to find replacments for

Regular fans work too. Just mount them above where the hamster wheel fan used to be.

[c_hegge]

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^
I guess it works, though.