Wooooo! The game machine is using the videocard today instead of the onboard video. It was the 'you need to reinstall the rotate driver' alert that popped up when I booted up that made me think to check it.
I have been working on my wish list lately and it is getting harder and harder to figure out what to put on there. I don't want a lot of stuff. I don't want too many movies because who has time to watch them. I don't want games for the computer because I have a bunch already that I haven't even played. A new computer would be nice but what I want is super expensive. I don't need much in the way of gadgets. Shirts are good. My current ones are starting to get a little beat looking.
DOH! The video went out on the gaming machine again.
After 4 months without the gaming machine and specing out whole new machines or just replacement parts and an OS missing a dll on boot the gaming machine is back to working and I didn't replace anything. I thought for sure it was the motherboard when the onboard video went out a couple of days ago but luckily I tried the nVidia card again and it works. Stupid computers.
After 4 months I am finally back on the gaming machine. It's still not quite running but I can at least get on and do some stuff. The monitor is still not getting a signal from the videocard and I tried my old videocard with the same results but the onboard video works. It can't hang with most of my games though. When I originally tried the onboard video I received an error on startup that XP was missing a DLL. I can't find my XP disc anywhere so I just left the machine sitting while I played Plants Vs Zombies on the kids computer. Yesterday I thought maybe it's just the videocard drivers and maybe I will install Ubuntu Linux to see if I can get the machine running. Running Ubuntu from the cd wouldn't work because it needs to download drivers and reboot so I was going to wipe the XP install and go Linux but I gave XP one last chance to make sure I knew what DLL was missing and wouldn't you know XP didn't want to be replaced by Ubuntu and booted up. I plugged everything back in the way it was before I unplugged everything in my troubleshooting and everything works except the video. So I'm thinking I will try to pick up a $50 motherboard tomorrow and hope that fixes the video issues and I will be back to killing zombies and racing cars. Crossing my fingers it's not two bad videocards.
E3 starts this week. i've got my pass but I'm so busy at work I don't think I will be able to make it. NOPAL should be there though and Jason Lake so tell them I said hi if you see them.