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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2008-01-15 09:17 am
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Technical Update

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...
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[identity profile] meaningrequired.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
My now dead laptop had a similar problem with the power cable.

My solution was tape.
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[personal profile] darkoshi 2008-01-15 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it a flat-panel or CRT? The latter would be more dangerous, I'd think. Yet I once went fiddling inside a CRT TV trying to troubleshoot it, and didn't shock myself. Don't touch anything metal with your bare fingers.
From what you describe, it sounds like it shouldn't be difficult to fix.
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