Technical Update
Jan. 15th, 2008 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerIn 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...
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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Date: 2008-01-15 10:56 am (UTC)That's fine. It's lying unplugged on my bed right now, so by tonight I'll be fine :->
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Date: 2008-01-15 11:02 am (UTC)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 :)