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Snarzler
Hunger Member
Post Number:
57
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 11:19 pm: |   |
I hope your computer problems ease up soon Dennis. I have been trying to contact you.
Andrea 
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1251
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 05:41 pm: | |
The warehouse is shipping me another (this will make 3) monitor. They haven't said what I'm supposed to do about the one that's damaged.
I installed a new video card and it re-adjusted all of my images to fit a 13" screen so now I'm typing this message in 4 point characters.
While I was at it, I installed the hard drive from my old computer and that seemed to go all right.
Abdrea... My AOL address is working just fine. Just sent you a note. |
Olen Armstrong
Wandering Member
Post Number:
295
Registered: 06-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 02:28 pm: | |
I was gonna stay outta this further but here's what I would do (being an old fart of a computer tech).
"Damaged in shipping" for a monitor, USUALLY means something got shook loose.
But opening a monitor is potentially dangerous, since it can hold voltages that'll turn your hair mauve if y'ain't careful, that's BEFORE it goes stiff, explodes out of your scalp and imbeds itself into the ceiling and walls. You won't care at the time, since you will not yet have landed from the zap. Color monitors can hold up to 25,000 volts on the glass tube anode connection, some more. So be careful. (I know what to avoid touching and am a great coward, so I WOULD open it and then tiptoe gently. But I would open it.)
Usually has 2 or 4 screws in the back under some covers or stickers somewhere. Standard design. Maybe some plastic clips. Then the back case usually slides off. I'd bet they have a bad design and at least ONE of them has a video or amp card loose on its pins. Not clamped down properly at the factory.
If so, SHAZAM...fixed - free monitor. Of course, honor would demand that you send it back to them at your own expense. (Yeah...RIGHT!??!!)
But I refuse any responsibility if you screw up and blow yourself into next week...or if you die...whichever might happen. You are a free adult who can risk your life as you see fit. I'd do it in a heartbeat. You may not want to.
Or, as always, I could be completely fulla crap.
I often am.
Good luck.
Olen A |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1261
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 08:30 am: | |
I'm getting awful sick of this...
Awright, I just hooked up the THIRD monitor that I got from those folks in California and this one doesn't work either.
I find it hard to believe that I could receive three defective monitors in a row, especially since they have factory stickers on them saying that they've been tested.
It almost HAS to be some sort of communication problem between my computer and these monitors. Could there be some sort of setting that needs to be changed. Any Ideas??? Anybody??? |
Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2106
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 06:46 pm: | |
I figure it has to be a driver or a CMOS problem (as Olen pointed out)...
I assume from your messages that when you plug in the new monitor, it doesn't come up with anything...no boot-up screen or anything...
But it will work with your 13" monitor?
Is your new video card an AGP or a PCI card? (let's see if I can remember...I believe AGP is the short brown slot, and PCI is a short white...someone help me out on this?)
You might also check at Microsoft for an updated driver for said monitor...since it seems that three of those monitors won't work, and the 13" will...
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2107
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 04:47 am: | |
For those who think a computer has a mind of it's own...
http://www.rio.com.br/animation/iconstory.htm
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
1574
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 03:24 am: | |
What would happen if you installed two different video cards in your computer and hooked up a monitor to each? Would one take priority over the other or would they both light up? I know that there are two different types and my computer has slots for both. |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2399
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 05:05 am: | |
I believe it depends on the interrupts (IRQ?) set for each, and the card(s) installed. I know that with some video cards, you can use dual monitors by plugging one into the original video port on the motherboard, and one into the new card. Both the motherboard and the card have to support dual monitor usage, however (which is the problem we have at church, where the motherboard can't support it).
When you say two different types, though, I imagine you mean an AGP slot (brown slot) and a PCI slot (short white slot). I don't believe you can use both of these slots for monitors at the same time, but I'll bow to the superior knowledge we have via other users on this forum...
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1905
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 08:45 am: | |
Todd has already mentioned what I would suspect the problem to be if you are on the 3rd monitor and none work--the video card. I thought my monitor was bad and was ready to fork out the (ouch) dough to get another one when this nice, young man stopped over and watched it go black on me. He informed me that it was not the monitor, it was the card, and he replaced it with a nice new card for a whopping $30.
And as he mentioned above, unless the motherboard is configured for dual monitors, your problem could be fixed as easily as unplugging the other card.
LaurieAnne
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William R. Park, Sr.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
50
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 02:00 pm: | |
Has anyone faced the 'Blue Screen of Death' and found a solution to eliminate the problem? It keeps poppoing up and closing me down. No one seems to know how to correct the problem, including Microsoft. I'm about to add an external hard drive and download everything on my computer...then reinstall. Any advice?
Bill Park
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Alphabeter
Wandering Member
Post Number:
145
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 02:01 pm: | |
Switch to Mac.
Joy*
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1910
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 02:45 pm: | |
Bill,
I get the "Blue Screen of Death" on my computer at work every time I try to boot up. Therefore, I don't shut it down much at all. Every once in a while, it goes through a spontaneous shout down, though.
I have never gotten the screen in the middle of anything, but I've had situations where it did take me over 2 hours to get my system to boot up. I actually got one of those "system error" messages that send back to Microsoft today. And like you found, they don't have a solution to the problem. According to them, my difficulties stem from the USB network bridge that is installed here, which is, of course, the product of a different company who has not yet found a solution to the problem either.
I wish you the best of luck with your 'blue screen of death', which, fyi, is the "technical" term my support guru's gave me when referring to it.
LaurieAnne
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2400
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 03:22 pm: | |
Save everything you want to keep (do you mean a jump drive when you say "external hard drive"?), then reformat the hard drive and only install the things you really need. That would be my suggestion.
Generally (at least I believe) the reason people get the blue screen of death is because of memory allocation problems. Too many things vying for all the memory (RAM) on a computer. There's something to be said about avoiding items like messenger services (MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc.), and sites which are loaded with Java and Flash items.
My wife tends to have about two messengers up, while playing at internet game sites...and then can't understand why the computer keeps dying on her...sigh. (oddly enough, I can go most days through message boards, e-mail, and MS Word for writing, with hardly any issues at all)
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William R. Park, Sr.
Hunger Member
Post Number:
51
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 04:25 pm: | |
I had a cheap e-computer for five years without any problems. The Dell I've had a little over a year (3/4 of the space is available) and I'm having all kinds of shut downs as well as the Blue Screen of Death. |
Kevin P. Grover
Unity Member
Post Number:
1305
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 05:08 am: | |
That's why I like DIY systems. Have had no problems with any of the systems I've built.
Also...they're generally 50% cheaper as well and have none of what I call "pork programs" that are pre-loaded which no one ever uses.
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Harry Simenon
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
644
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 09:58 am: | |
That's why I am trying a Mac.
I'm sick of such problems, and hate fixing them.
Hope I will be lucky this time.
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1579
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:36 am: | |
Kevin... What's DIY?? I know what DUI is.
Mine's a regular PC and I've had this one for over a year with no problems. It's been amazingly virus free too. |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2091
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 11:27 am: | |
DO IT YOURSELF machine, one that you had made or scoured parts from other machines and put together based on how you need it to function.......
sorry, but sometimes I just have to be smartass...... the devil made me do it
Claudia
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1912
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 03:04 pm: | |
Bill Park,
Sounds like maybe we should both be calling Dell. My computer at work, the one that gives me that wonderful blue screen, is also a Dell. I've already had to replace the mother board once, and the power supply twice. I've had this one just over 2 years.
LA
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William R. Park, Sr.
Hunger Member
Post Number:
52
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 04:23 pm: | |
Laurie Anne:
I've spent hours on the phone to Dell's service people in India working on the problem. They've run all kinds of tests and had me delete Microsoft programs running in the background that could have been the source of the problem. They exausted all avenues and suggested I get an external hard drive and download my computer. They are to call me back on Sunday to walk me through reinstalling the original operating system and drivers.
Seems that the Blue Screen of Death is a major Microsoft problem that they themselves cannot solve. Others have mentioned that, too. Heard it on the radio the other day.
Bill Park
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