Well, my home computer’s monitor has finally crapped out on me.
It’s been dying for a while. The power button hasn’t worked for about six months, and for the last few months it’s been refusing to wake up once it goes into sleep mode. I’ve been dealing with both problems by rigging up a monitor extension lead so I can directly cut and restore power without getting out of my chair, which has been serving to wake it up again. But yesterday morning nothing I did could get an image to appear. Dang.
Apparently the thing that most often goes bye-bye on Viewsonic monitors is the capacitors. These can be replaced, but unless you’re willing to do the work yourself the cost for parts and labour is generally about that of an entirely new monitor. So I guess I have some shopping to do.
On the plus side, this enforced break from using my home computer (I don’t have a spare monitor, so I can’t do squat) will serve as a nice detox from Fallout: New Vegas, which I’ve recently got back into and have been playing way too much. I’m getting seriously tetris-affected – I saw an agave plant in a garden over the weekend and had a sudden urge to harvest it. Not good. Not good at all 🙂
(As long as I don’t start seeing people’s body parts highlighted I should be OK though :))
Over and out.
If you want, you can borrow my monitor. God know’s I won’t be using it for a good long while.
Thanks for the offer, but my new monitor is already paid for and in the hands of the couriers who (with a bit of luck) may get it to my work before close of business today.
I shall not live without a monitor damnit! 🙂
I hear ya my friend. The first 4 months of my travels I didn’t have computer access at all!!! Computer addiction, it’s a hard thing to detox. 🙂