{"id":22783,"date":"2008-04-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/10\/the-dead-desktop-computer-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-but-not-in-that-order\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T10:00:01","slug":"the-dead-desktop-computer-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-but-not-in-that-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080410-01\/?p=22783","title":{"rendered":"The dead desktop computer: The good, the bad, and the ugly, but not in that order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/04\/02\/8349299.aspx\"> When last we left my dead desktop computer<\/a>, it had fried its second video card, and I was considering whether I should get a third.\n I did indeed get a third video card, a cheap one since I knew that if the computer really did eat video cards, I&#8217;d have to feed it on a budget. I plugged it in, and&#8230;\n Computer still dead. <i>Bad<\/i>.\n Remove the video card, and the computer boots up.\n Okay, so the computer doesn&#8217;t actually eat video cards. The problem is that the PCI Express slot is dead, for whatever reason, be it a fried component, a failing power supply, who knows.\n While I was back behind the computer, I noticed an unused plug: Yup, it was for VGA video output. I plugged in a VGA video cable, and, leaving the PCI Express video card unplugged, turned on the computer. Lo and behold, the computer started up and sent images out the VGA cable. <i>Good<\/i>.\n I didn&#8217;t realize that the motherboard has an onboard video card. In the absence of a plug-in video card, the onboard video card takes over and pumps out video just fine. I don&#8217;t use the computer for anything video-intensive, so a lame, underpowered video card is just fine by me.\n The problem is that the onboard video card has only VGA out, so I&#8217;m running an analog signal to my LCD monitor. <i>Ugly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> But at least it&#8217;s a situation I can live with for now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we left my dead desktop computer, it had fried its second video card, and I was considering whether I should get a third. I did indeed get a third video card, a cheap one since I knew that if the computer really did eat video cards, I&#8217;d have to feed it on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,26],"class_list":["post-22783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dead-computers","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When last we left my dead desktop computer, it had fried its second video card, and I was considering whether I should get a third. I did indeed get a third video card, a cheap one since I knew that if the computer really did eat video cards, I&#8217;d have to feed it on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}