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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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To: JenB
I'm having heck with my system... got home tonight and my system wouldn't boot. Guessed it was the video card, as it's been acting up for a while now. Sooo... unhooked my system box, pulled out the suspect video card, pulled a lesser card out of an older system and put it into my system. Hooked it back up... and it still didn't work. Booted, but no display. Sooo... grabbed an old 14" monitor off the same system that provided the test video card and hooked it up. Hooray! It displayed. But now I was wondering if the video card was really at fault, so I took my system down yet again and put the suspect card back in, hooking it up to the 14" monitor. Hooray! It booted and displayed, leading to the conclusion that the monitor was bad. Sooo... we started pricing new monitors. After doing that on Rose's system for a few minutes, I turned back to my system and found it hung up with a black display. So it seems both the video card *and* the monitor are bad.

Put the old video card back in, hooked it up to my suspect monitor, and managed to get it to display in Windows at least (it doesn't display the DOS screen while the system is booting) so I should be able to run like this until I can get a new video card tomorrow.

Just now, my system tried to pop up the TV tuner program to record "Lost". It not only dogs my system down almost to the point of being unusable, but it only displays about a quarter of the TV screen in the little tuner window. Luckily, it appears that the MPEG file it creates is all right...

5,641 posted on 09/28/2005 5:22:17 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Sunspots. That's it.

Evenin' folkses... [sip]

:-)


5,642 posted on 09/28/2005 5:42:07 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Ramius
Naw... I think the video card went bad and fried some of the display modes on the monitor. Anyway, video card is a lot cheaper to replace than the monitor would be.

How do?

5,643 posted on 09/28/2005 5:44:23 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Tired. For some reason I've got *both* sets of auditors (inside and outside) on site for the last couple of days. They all need care and feeding all day all the time... and usually simultaneously.

Yeesh. Only another six weeks of this.

Hah!

blahblahblahblubberblubberblubber...


5,644 posted on 09/28/2005 5:53:20 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Ramius

SOX SUX.


5,645 posted on 09/28/2005 5:54:43 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Mmmm... Lost.... Glad you got your problems properly diagnosed.


5,646 posted on 09/28/2005 5:56:52 PM PDT by JenB (No Plot, No Problem)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Cool pics. That catwalk thing they're putting up is just terrifying to look at. It's simply GOT to dance around in the wind.

That and it goes from lowpoint of... what... 400ft? up to the top of the towers at 700ft or so? I dunno... but it's really really high.


5,647 posted on 09/28/2005 5:59:03 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Ramius

It's really high indeed... anything over about 100 feet is all about the same result though, except for the time you have to pray. ;~D


5,648 posted on 09/28/2005 6:00:52 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Well... that bridge is really high. So high that the people on their boats below look like little ants.

This is especially wierd, since you wouldn't expect ants to be able to drive boats that are so big. But there you have it.


5,649 posted on 09/28/2005 6:05:03 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Lil'freeper
"Race tried desperately to concentrate as he drove. The speed at which they were traveling was utterly frightening.

Stop! Please! Poetry....give us Vogon poetry, anything!

5,650 posted on 09/28/2005 6:07:45 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Ramius

Heh...

Oh - I gotta go - ecurbh's starting our dose of 24 for the evening.


5,651 posted on 09/28/2005 6:09:05 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Overtaxed
Hey. I paid money for that book!

We all make mistakes. :)

5,652 posted on 09/28/2005 6:09:11 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: HairOfTheDog

Boston is losing to Toronto, 2 - 7 bottom of the fifth.


5,653 posted on 09/28/2005 6:10:09 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Overtaxed; Lil'freeper

The great spaceship hung clumsily in the air, in much the same way that a brick doesn't.


5,654 posted on 09/28/2005 6:10:31 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog

Uh oh... :-)


5,655 posted on 09/28/2005 6:11:09 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Ramius

Aaaaack!


5,656 posted on 09/28/2005 6:11:12 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
O freddled gruntbuggly...

Been watching RotK with cast commentary on.

Boyd and Monaghan are a coupla ham sammiches :)

5,657 posted on 09/28/2005 6:13:34 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (What's taters, precious?)
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To: Overtaxed

His mind was like six loose cans of beer rolling around in the back seat without that little plastic thingy to hold it all together.


5,658 posted on 09/28/2005 6:14:37 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: ExGeeEye

Got the second load of laundry in the dryer....now for "Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon." Wonder if he had an aloe plant.


5,659 posted on 09/28/2005 6:15:06 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Aloes rule.)
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To: Ramius

Izzat Homer Simpson?


5,660 posted on 09/28/2005 6:15:46 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Aloes rule.)
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