I'm considering buying a used GeForce Ti4200 128mb. The seller hasn't tested the card in games or 3dmark yet, so I was thinking of asking them to run some tests on it, but I don't know the first thing about testing older GPUs. I heard of people running Quake 2 on Voodoo cards for an hour or so to …

Yup, broken. Some gorilla tried to close the latch without a floppy, and hard. Damn, that sucks, good thing it's nothing major, here's hoping that's the only thing that's broken. BTW that drive could use some cleaning, at least dust removal. Yeah, definitely gonna hit it with some compressed air …

If you can free this plastic bit (try lifting it up a bit) then the carboard should come out. If it's still stuck then unscrew the small PCB in the upper left corner, it has the write protect sensor on it. Then the lower PCB, closer to the spindle, that one has the index hole sensor. Hoooly moly! …

Thank you for all the advice. Welp, apparently it's not even long enough to reach the heads. Photo https://i.imgur.com/WopmAoI.jpeg Unfortunately pushing down on it doesn't help, it's stuck there pretty tightly. I guess I'm gonna have to disassemble it. Any advice on what parts I should be extra …

So I bought an old FDD online and asked the seller to insert a piece of thin cardboard in the slot for shipping. This is how it arrived. Photos https://i.imgur.com/PFDPqMt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1uV3gHO.jpg The cardboard is stuck and I can't seem to remove it. This is my first 5.25 FDD, am I …