Just great

[andrewducker]

The SCART switch I bought from Argos doesn't recognise when the GameCube is plugged into it - the image appears for 1/20 of a second then vanishes.  Which is just silly, as the old £5 one worked fine.

And the MediaMVP I picked up doesn't work at all.  No lights, no signal, not even a flashing on the hub where the ethernet is plugged in.

Is it too much to expect that things would work when you plug them in?

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[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Well it is to me, as technology hates me - its all out to get me, especially my laptop.............

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Curiously enough, I also had SCART related problems with my Gamecube. I even tried one of those RGB connectors and got nowhere. It may well have been my TV or something.

When you get it working, get Resident Evil 4. A few nights ago, I had to fight through something completely ripped from "Night of the Living Dead": the zombie* siege! Desperately blocking doors and windows with furniture and running up the stairs in panic has never been so much fun!


* Except RE4 'zombies' are more like "28 Days Later" loonies crossed with Ramsey Campbells "The Inhabitant of the Lake."

[totg-kabu.livejournal.com]

If things worked straight out the box you would loose half the fun of spending 3 hours tearing out hair, screaming and trawling through support and tech pages trying to get the thing working, not that that's happened to me this week :P

[andrewducker]

Playing with support pages I can do. Plugging the thing in and having _nothing_ happen is maddening, because I can't tweak it to make it work - it's a "back to the shop" job. Which means posting it back and waiting 6-7 days for the round-trip.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

well my scart switcher definitely recognises the gamecube. Up until last week I'd never attached the cube to it, but I had an unquenchable urge to bop the bongos on the big tv so hooked it up and had a drunken evening with Donkey Konga. Now I need to decide whether to buy Donkey Konga 2. Want to borrow my GC lead to see if it makes a difference? Could be your lead rather than your scart switch?

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Oooh let me know if Donkey Konga 2 is worth getting! They appear to have taken my Britney suggestion at least. :)

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

You're as much a fanboy as me. I will try to resist but if I walk past a shop to,orrow it may be difficult... I had vowed not to buy anything else till I'd finished Pikmin2

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

and why didn't I know you'd bought a mediaMVP??? (expects sarcastic answer about never meeting for lunch) Where's my invitation to come and play with it? I have to admit that I've been most pleased with my streamium and it's revolutionised my music listening experience in the living roonm - no more mucking around with CDs.

Lunch, Monday, 12pm, beside the lifts.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Know what you mean about equipment, although I got a lovely broadband/router to worl after some bad language - a pci ethernet card has defeated me and I must return it to the shop before I kill someone.

[andrewducker]

Odd- usually ethernet cards are so simple that nothing you can do can make them go wrong.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

This is why the shop beckons. . . .