Technical Update

[andrewducker]

In the end, I backed up everything (except for my email address book - doh!) blew away windows, and reinstalled it.

Which turned out to be exactly the right thing to do - as Windows now boots vastly faster. Well, it had been 4 years of me installing stupid levels of software, then uninstalling, then reinstalling it, then fucking about some more.

Also, Hugh got a new monitor for christmas (shiny 22") - so I bought his old 15" off of him to have a dual monitor setup. And then, this morning, my monitor stopped working. So now I have a single 15" monitor setup. Which isn't great, but is better than it would have been if I hadn't bought his old monitor off of him...

Anyone know about the insides of monitors? The problem seems to be a dodgy power connection - if I hold the cable at just the right angle it works...

Comments

[figg.livejournal.com]

I am not an electrictian.

That said, I would disconnect it from the mains, leave it switched on for a bit, and then maybe go back after fifteen minutes.

And then be very very very careful anyway.

[andrewducker]

*phew*

That's fine. It's lying unplugged on my bed right now, so by tonight I'll be fine :->

[figg.livejournal.com]

When we fixed a surface mount on the tv in emmental, we were well aware of the problems of high tension capacitors.

Jon, who has the most experience of electronics shocked himself at least three times.

It's unlikely to kill you but it hurts like fuck :)