Oh god! I just destroyed 200+ euros!

[Van_M]

Guys I just did a terrible screw-up with my winPC... I have this nice, self-built computer with a dual core athlon 4600+, 1 gig ram and an asus geforce 6800 128 mb. Problem was, the graphics card was making a hell of noise when operating. I've spotted that nice Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 fan since long ago. Today I decided to buy it and put it in. I've read on reviews, it was near completely silent. I went out to the shop and got it, went back home and opened up my pc. While I was unscrewing the old cooler off my graphics card, in a clumsy moment the screwdriver sliped off from my hands and hit the PCB of the card, right on one of the AGP connectors! Holy Crap! I tried to keep calm and completed the installation. I put the Graphics card in, pressed the power button, and .... Nothing!!! The computer boots up but the connector I damaged must have been responsible for recieving stuff to show on the screen. There go my 200 (or even 210) euros! You can't possibly imagine how much of a fool I feel right now :boohoo: .


Any posts of compassion and sympathy will be dearly appreciated! :boohoo:

ps. sorry for my bad English      

[Van_M]

Well I'm not an electronics guru but I don't think it is repeirable. The PCB seems to be wounded and there's no easy way of getting around of this. Thankfully I kept my old graphics card, a geforce 2 with a faulty fan that makes 3 times more noise than my last one (if that isn't an irony then what is?) so I can at least have a running PC. I'm out of savings so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask my father for a 200 euro loan 'till christmas! :-(

[Van_M]

It is out of warranty since i removed the original cooler which is part of the hardware.

Guys I really appreciate your help on the "tragedy" that struck me! The original cost of the card doesn't justfy the cost of sending the card abroad for repair. Instaead I would dearly appreciate if any of you, provided me directions on where to look to find instruction to repair it. To my understanding if there is a material that could be applied to solve these sorts of problems, it should be some kind of foam that fills up the trace on the PCB, right? Thank you in advance.

[Van_M]

I'm gonna try to get a digital camera tommorow and get a few pics of the damage. I think I could probably get my self to Ioannina next saturday, and meet with Keropi. If this isn't possible I could probably post it as insured-fragile to one of you. Of course since it is already non-functional, whoever gets his hands on it will have absolutely no responsibility over the outcome. Thanks.  :-)