Seating problems

[DeVry Student]

I had a problem seating my AGP video card. The seating problem is unrealated to the mainboard. The problem is because one of the tabs that snaps down over the area where a screw would usualy go has broke on me, and the card came loose enough last night for me to get a system reboot and "device failure" warning when it rebooted "failure to draw".

I adjusted the card in the slot (pushed it in further and tried to clamp it down better) and it seems to have temporarily fixed the problem. I fixed it permanantly tonight by doing the below.

The only thing about it is that, since the tab on the case is broke, and the area where you would usualy put a screw in does not leave enough room for the screw head, that I can not figure how to do this without using a mainboard seating screw (the kind that you have to put in with a wrench and then you seat the mainboard on top of it and put a screw into the screw). I do not have a wrench that is narrow enough to do this, but I have a screw driver that has an end that allows it to turn screws via locking over the heads - and using this I was able to better secure the video card.

I do not really want to buy a new case, as I tried out another case (althought a cheep one from TigerDirect) a few months back and it was alot louder than this one, and quite frankly, I think the case its in right now is sleek.

I don't know if anyone else has had any problems similar to this but it goes to show you that improperly fastened video cards (especially heavy ATI Raedon X800 Pros) can come loose if not secured properly.

 

[Dumb Dude]

My first 6600gt had a large cooler on it and when seated, it looked slanted. But that was my first one which I had to RMA because I got no more than 10fps on ANYTHING it ran. Now I got a different one with a smaller cooler and it doesn't do that.

 

[oni_666]

Instead of a screw to secure the card, why not use some hot glue from a glue gun, put some under the bracket where the screw would usually go and then seat the card.
Since the glue is generally used by people to cover solder points to prevent shorting, it won't damage anything, and you can easily peel it off should you need to remove the card.
You could also try drilling out a hole where the screw hole would normally go, and use a self tapping screw to secure the card, If you do attempt this you will have to make sure that all components in the case are covered by a bed sheet or something, so metal shavings don't get trapped anywhere and cause a short circuit when you switch the PC on.

 

[DeVry Student]

Instead of a screw to secure the card, why not use some hot glue from a glue gun, put some under the bracket where the screw would usually go and then seat the card.
Since the glue is generally used by people to cover solder points to prevent shorting, it won't damage anything, and you can easily peel it off should you need to remove the card.
You could also try drilling out a hole where the screw hole would normally go, and use a self tapping screw to secure the card, If you do attempt this you will have to make sure that all components in the case are covered by a bed sheet or something, so metal shavings don't get trapped anywhere and cause a short circuit when you switch the PC on.

What I did with the motherboard mounting screw worked.

I shure hope that thing about the glue gun is a joke, because that would not be the most intelligent thing to do that and then a few years down the road discover that your motherboard goes bad, and then you have to buy a new case, new video card, and new motherboard instead of just a new motherboard...