So the clean up didn't work. My Windows 7 gaming rig was still intermittently crapping out on 3D processing. Yesterday I tried updating my video driver and compress-air'd all the dust bunnies and their friends out of my computer and into the neighbors laundry. I removed a drive which died on me a few months ago and check all the boards for a burn spot. I found (sorry for over exposed shot) a capacitor had cracked open on my video card which oddly coincides with a loud pop my GF and I heard last week while we were in the living room next to the computer. So the card was pwned but in a way where it worked until you really made it work. One of those problems normal people would pay 100$ plus new parts for a techie to fix. Luckily, I'm not normal...Last night I spent most of the evening looking for a replacement when I realize the card was an AGP slot - a standard a year or 2 ago but definitely not now. To my horror upon searching through Futureshop, Bureau en Gros, and Microbytes, AGP was not really being sold anywhere. I then went to the place everyone goes for old stuff - Ebay. I luckily found 1 in a few for a quick buy for less than a hundred. Guess we'll see in a week.
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