[NP] Friday F**kwit 06/May/2016

Another Friday Fuckwit I wish to nominate is my dam Graphics card or the "Pin" responsible for my pissed afternoon

Now I'm not sure what the heck is going on but my PC was fine this morning and I shut it off as I left the house, come back close to 4:00 PM today and first thing I did was jump on my PC, I hear my computer make it's start up beep and that but my Samsung SyncMaster P2350 screen is totally black. It's been doing this all week

Anyway I spend half hour trying to find why my Monitor was displaying a black screen, the little Led was on but was flashing red rapidly, okay perhaps it's a problem with the monitor

Swap over to my old Dell monitor I used with an older PC i bought off Gumtree years ago... Same problem, yellow light on the monitor power button and black screen. Now I should state that both my Monitors (Dell and Samsung) don't have HDMI ports so i'm forced to use the good old Blue RGB / DVI cable.

I take the side casing off my PC off and see a pin like this but the smaller end of it http://www.build-your-own-computer.net/image-files/6-pin-connector.jpg now the moment I saw that I had a feeling that was the likely culprit. One end of that cable is plugged into the Motherboard, the other just seems to magically stand up on top of the GC chip (My card faces downwards to the case, not up so I see the chip when I normally look at it)

Luckily I had taken a photo a few days back showing the inside of my PC so I pull out the good and trusty Cannon 505D and scroll through my pictures and I see the pin pictured above in it's spot where it should be, I move the pin back to where it should be and plug my PC back in and BAM! PC powers up and I have Picture again

Now I just gotta find the effort to switch my monitor back now

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