So, one morning at work, I felt like installing Windows 8 Developer Edition on one of the older desktop machines. I was going to use it to test the compatibility of some of our older applications and to just play with it a bit. Well… installing Windows 8 was easy, however I noticed that windows 8 ran REALLY slowly on the desktop I was using…

That’s a sad number 2 on 2D graphics…. and Windows 8 ran really show because of it! Ugh. I needed a new graphics card. My boss happened to have an old Nvidia Quadro card laying around, but the fan on it was broken.

Notice the dark color of the fan… that means it won’t be spinning any time soon. Lucky for me, I happened to have an extra, awesome-blue colored fan to use on this graphics card. Unfortunately, my excitement didn’t last long because I quickly noticed that the two fan cables didn’t match at all. (sadface)

 I was kinda stuck. Until I just decided to strip both connectors on the blue fan and the old fan on the graphics card, because I can.

I also made sure the blue fan worked by touching the correct red and black wires together. It did, so I was ready to continue!

All I had was some duck tape, so I just taped the wires together in a very messy fashion, because I just needed it to stay together.

 There. all fixed ^.^

It Works! I was now able to run Windows 8 at full speed with the new 3.5 2D graphics rating! It’s also a great day when I get to build myself a “frankin-graphics-card”

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