The new workstation that I bought for myself was supposed to have been so that my old workstation would replace my server. I still haven’t got things to the point where this would happen.

This past weekend I got to the point where I was going to migrate the server (Virgil) over to the new case / motherboard. I had everything in order until I realized I had no video card – the old server has one built in.

I got Michelle to drive me to the computer store where I asked for the “cheapest video card” they had. $20. (I’ve since found the same one online for $5 so I’m not sure how good a price that was.) Seemingly, it was a 4M AGP card.

When I went to plug it into my old workstation’s AGP slot (in which I’d had a much better AGP card in use previously) it was to discover that the card was “backwards” and would not fit. If the card were to be reversed it would (physically) fit into the AGP slot but, of course, that wouldn’t be at all practical. (Plus, I even took the backplate off just to see if it would actually work – while it fit, the computer wouldn’t boot with it installed that way.)

Very odd. Just my kind of luck though. So, things are back just the way before, and everything will have to wait until this coming weekend for another upgrade attempt. (As well as a trip to the computer store to return the impossibly manufactured item I got from them.)