GRAH.

[soc_puppet]

I don't recall if I've posted about this or not. but my shiny widescreen monitor that I got last January has been having problems connecting to my CPU. Well, tonight I finally got around to trying to hook up Roommate C's spare monitor to see if that would work better, and I could finally finish my family's Xmas card.

...The good news is that it's not my monitor that's the problem. *headdesk*

C has suggested that it's probably the video card, and at least that's less than I paid for the monitor, so I'm willing to accept that. He's also pretty willing to do the repairs himself, possibly for free. TY, roommate T^Tb

(Tomorrow-ish, he's planning to open up my tower to take a look and find out what size video card I take. I'm half expecting him to find a literal computer bug in there. It would be nice to blame this on something like that, and also hilarious.)

Comments

[dorothean]

Thanks for that link. I'd never heard about Grace Hopper before -- what an interesting person!

[soc_puppet]

My pleasure ^_^

[otterevil.livejournal.com]

I empathize - my monitor just crapped out on me. And I don't have a spare, so I'm on my netbook. But all my stuff is on the desktop :( And I'm broke.

May have to hook up the backup drive to the netbook and transfer. So irritating! And I don't have a handy roommate [sigh].

[soc_puppet]

*wince* Yeowch, that's awful >_O I am super-lucky to have a techy roommate to help out with this stuff.