Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 07:30:56 EST


On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:15:21AM -0600, I Am Falling I Am Fading wrote:

> > Insulating tape on certain pins works on ISA cards, but whether it would be
> > practical on the smaller pins of an AGP card, I'm not sure.
>
> Tried it already... The pins are too small to get adequate purchase for
> the tape -- the friction just causes it to slide around in the slot and
> gets goo around.
>
> Superglue might be a better solution....
> ...but I think the solder method is better.

So rather than experiment with backporting the 2.5 code to 2.4,
you'd rather risk damaging your hardware ?

I think this way is madness.

                Dave

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