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  • #1

    Support call waiting to happen...

    Here's a wierd problem ... in my case the equipment's five years old and unbranded so I guess I won't be calling anyone but...

    Believe it or not...

    My monitor just crashed.
    Not the computer the monitor.

    Everything was fine till I ran a program that needed a different screen resolution and I got that wierd view where everything's scrambled horizontally. Rebooted and all the startup and splash screens did the same but back to normal in windows.

    Shut down the computer and the monitor display just faded to grey, no "no signal" flag and the power saving didn't kick in.

    The penny dropped at this point and I pulled the plug on the monitor. All back to normal.
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    Awesome! I love seeing when extremely simple computers have issues like that. Vending machine at work used to have a bit of an issue with dispensing change. It'd kick out the coins when you made a purchase. And not deduct the change from the display. It'd properly process when you hit the change button tho. Concievably, if you had the time, you could take all the change and all the soda.

    Pity is was coke products. No Dew!
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    • #3
      We used to have a Pepsi machine like that in the break room at the grocery store. For some reason, if you put a dollar in the bill acceptor face down, it would return the bill and cue the machine to give you whatever you wanted. Free Dew!! That was until someone told the wrong person and they had it fixed. That month of freebie citrus-y goodness was great.
      This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

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      • #4
        use to have a computer monitor like that at work. we had to keep it on all the time because it was so ancient, it took at least 5 minutes to warm up enough to actually see anything on it.

        course the last time my own monitor went out...turned out it wasn't the monitor. the 16mb videocard (housed on the motherboard) finally died. but... i didn't figure this out until *after* hauling said monitor into radio shack and having them look at it. (heh)

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        • #5
          My last monitor went out with a flicker and near audible pop. It went 'brown' and then wouldnt' boot up right... the new one a nice 19 inch acer is looking sweet. I'm not used to having to move my eyes sid eto side so much!
          Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?

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          • #6
            I find it funny that monitors (and TVs too) have to "boot up" now.

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