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malada ([personal profile] malada) wrote2024-09-21 10:53 am
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Now where is that part?

So, I was going to upgrade one of my older computers with a salvaged graphic card. However, the PCIe power connector is 6 pin, and the card needs and 8 pin.

No problem, I'll order an adapter from Amazon.

While I'm waiting, I decide to upgrade my main system with a better card. It arrives, I install it and things are great! The card I originally had uses... TAH-DAH uses a 6 pin adapter! So in it goes into the spare machine. The 6 to 8 pin adapter arrives and I don't really need it so I stash it away.

On to my next project where I can use that salvaged graphics card and hey! It needs a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter! I go looking for my just bought adapter and...it's gone. I can't find it.

So I'm doing a long put off search, clean and toss. 56k external modem? 25 feet of 25 pin printer cable? Mice with balls in them and PS/2 connectors? Half a dozen case fans? How many keyboards do I really need?

(ALL OF THEM!) A voice in my head screams.

Ah... no. A few have keys that have the letters worn off. They gotta go.

I haven't found the adapter I was looking for but I did find a mounting bracket I was searching for a few weeks ago.

I'll probably end up re-ordering the part from Amazon. Of course, after it arrives I'll find the original. In the meantime... I got boxes of stuff to sort and toss.

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