a fool and his graphics card...

so i finally got around to buying a slot cooler to make up for the non-spinning fan on my graphics card. why do they put bearings in a non-replaceable fan that die long before the card should? in the process of installing the slot cooler i dropped the card. now, maybe it had been broken some time in the months it sat out while i was pricing and waiting for the opportune moment to buy a slot cooler (or for chaintech to respond to my email requesting details on how to order replacement parts), but either way, it's broken now. i have a +$100 piece o junk. to be fair, it's a chaintech, so i didn't count on it lasting too long anyway. but my outlook of "i get a newer, faster graphics card when this one dies" has been replaced by a debt reduction mindset. so now i have a sweet 256MB graphics card that would work perfectly fine for the applications i use (even games with my slow reaction times) but it doesn't work. ugh. i see a long future of onboard graphics processing (that has a tendency to crash my PC, especially when using video). but i have a really cool slot cooler with a blue LED. maybe Amy will post a pic. i don't feel like breaking the digital camera tonite.