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 Post subject: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 13:59 
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SavyGamer

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My PC is acting up a bit, gonna get it looked at.

However, the warranty doesn't cover the graphics card I added.

How do I go about removing a graphics card and then making it look like it was never there in the first place (like drivers and stuff)


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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 14:29 
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What-ho, chaps!

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You don't.

You can uninstall most graphics card drivers using the Add Remove Programs control panel app, as if it were a program, but the uninstallation program usually leaves stuff behind. (Nothing that computer-unknown joe would care about, but enough that a thorough directed search would find it. There's probably also a log of both the installation and uninstallation.)

Alternatively, you can load the Restore Point from before you installed the graphics card.

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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 14:30 
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You invalidated the warranty once you opened the case up.

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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 14:32 
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I thought that'd been proven to not hold up under legal scrutiny?

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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 14:35 
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myp wrote:
You invalidated the warranty once you opened the case up.

I though about that, but there is no way of telling it has been opened. Normally they have tabs that break when the case is opened.

Actually, I remembered, it's not a warranty, it's insurance, and it was bloody expensive, should this make a difference?


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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 16:45 

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myp wrote:
You invalidated the warranty once you opened the case up.


No, he didn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 16:59 
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Of course he didn't. I had an Advent last year that I completely stripped and recased and they still replaced the faulty HDD. Engineer came to the house (which I thought was fucking awesome, didn't know PC world chucked in free onsite !) and I just handed him the busted HDD and he gave me a brand new one :D

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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 17:45 

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When my dad has a busted hard drive they offered to do that or if he wanted it quickly they'd send out the drive now and he could send the busted one back himself :)


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 Post subject: Re: Removing and uninstalling a gfx card
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 18:31 
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They almost did that, but I think the fact I had stripped it down made them want to see it themselves to verify I still had the Advent and wasn't trying to pull a Frito the bandito number on they asses.

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