{"id":518,"date":"2009-08-15T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-08-15T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:29:07","slug":"computers-cant-live-with-em-cant-live-without-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/computers-cant-live-with-em-cant-live-without-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers . . . can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a bad week for electronics around here. Last month, I bought an external 20″ monitor for Elizabeth to use with her laptop. It worked great — until last week. Then, she started getting BSOD<\/acronym> issues and the external monitor would start flashing until she disconnected it.<\/p>\n

Off to the shop it went. We’d bought the laptop and the monitor from the same place, with a verbal assurance that they’d work together (and really, in this day and age, how unusual is it to connect an external monitor to a laptop?). The technician was rather dismissive, telling Elizabeth that she probably just needed to download new drivers (she already had, with no improvement). He said they’d run some tests, install updated drivers and run it for 24 hours to verify that it was working properly. She got a call on Thursday to come in and pick up the equipment — it was working fine now.<\/p>\n

On Friday, she got there after work to discover that the laptop had exhibited the same reported symptoms during the day, so it was back to the drawing board. So she continued using my laptop.<\/p>\n

Which started to have problems first thing this morning . . . the mouse wasn’t showing up on the screen, and the screen itself was very dim (as though it was on battery power). A shutdown-and-reboot cycle seems to have fixed the problem, but it’s a bit of a concern: the laptop is my primary business machine. I’d definitely be delayed if it needed any extensive repair\/reconfiguration work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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