As some may have gathered I have been been seeking to invest in productivity by playing with the netowrk and its components again....

As a result I have disocvered two graphics card oddities.

1. On the old PIII933 (that I am on at the moment) I have an nVidia card dating from about the date of the host machine, ie about 2000. It is being a nuisance. Every so often, mu screen goes blank or says "no signal". A firm downwards wiggle of the lead to the screen, at the compuater end, can resurrect the screen. It is not the AGP slot, I have re-seated the card several times. It is not the lead, I have swapped it. That leaves the output socket on the card. I ahve re-soldered the connections of the socket to the PCB (!) - no change. That I think makes it dirty connections inside the socket.

I do not fancy mounting a new socket on the PCB even if one could be got, and getting inside the back of the socket looks unlikely.

All I can think of is to squirt WD40 or electroclens (switch cleaner) in the socket (with the machine off) and let it dry before re-trying.


What have I got to lose (except the mother board)?

2. I did try an old Matrox board I took out of a P233 Win95 machine - so old it fitted a PCI slot not an AGP slot - butit would not talk to the board or maybne to WInME. Boot failure! Repeatedly. I wasn't expecting that.   Views?