The Lorax
06-26-2007, 02:03 PM
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR,
OK, so last year, after 4 years without one, we found a TV.
Now this TV was on life support since we got it, meaning that I had to keep the back off of it and fiddle about with it for the first half hour that it was on and then it would be mostly good. It was no great shakes for me, as I was fully involved in watching downloaded programs, but it was good for the kids if I needed some time to get things done. Finally about two weeks ago it died.
Today someone lent me a TV until I could buy another one, which was going to be when I got paid. So I bring it home and hook it up. Worked great and even has a remote! So the girls are watching a show while I'm finishing off a website and cruising TY. OK, so now it's bath time.I get the water running, get the girls in the tub and come back out to do some work.
Hmmmmm, The computer monitor isn't on, but I hear this click, click, click noise.
I move the mouse.
Nothing.
I hit the power button.
Nothing.
Click, click click.
If I half press in the monitors power button, the orange light comes on.
Press it all of the way in, nothing.
No Light.
Click, click,click.
I run into the storage shed and grab a very olf 14 inch monitor and try it out.
OK, I get it working.
I take the Clicking monitor and plug it into another outlet and press the power button. The orange light comes on!
Hmmmm.
So I switch them back and turn on the monitor.
Orange light.
Good.
I turn on the computer, it starts to boot and at the point when the monitor should turn on, the orange light goes out, the green light doesn't come on and.........................
Click, click, click.
It turns on, but when there's a signal from the computer to it, it shites the bed.
So right now I'm trying to work on a 14 incher with a max of 800X600 with 60 hertz, a real pain when trying to finish a website at a higher resolution.
So now I have some questions for the more technically inclined.
The TV and the monitor sit side by side and always have with no problem. Could something in the borrowed TV had screwed the monitor?
(Right now I have a big kids book wrapped in foil between the two as sort of Polish shielding, just in case)
Does anyone know what might be possibly be wrong with the monitor from my very through, technical description and could I possibly fix it. I'm good with a soldering iron and poking around or should I just take it up to the roof and chuck it hard?
Damn!! I was hoping to use the money from the website to get a new TV and buy a pool pass for the kids, Now I guess I'll get a monitor and let the kids watch movies of other kids swimming.
Please don't offer me anything but advice or fixing suggestions (ie, yeah, just look for something that looks like this and change out this capacitor or something like that.
But mostly, I'm just mainly biatching. Kind of like when you put a new clutch in the car and a day after you get the car back, the alternator decides to give out, like it was envious of the clutch.
Somedays I think that the universe doesn't like me or at least just trying to keep that elusive peace-of-mind just out of my grasp.
I know it's a small problem, but right now it's just the cherry on the sundae of a biatch of a month.
Thanks,
TL
OK, so last year, after 4 years without one, we found a TV.
Now this TV was on life support since we got it, meaning that I had to keep the back off of it and fiddle about with it for the first half hour that it was on and then it would be mostly good. It was no great shakes for me, as I was fully involved in watching downloaded programs, but it was good for the kids if I needed some time to get things done. Finally about two weeks ago it died.
Today someone lent me a TV until I could buy another one, which was going to be when I got paid. So I bring it home and hook it up. Worked great and even has a remote! So the girls are watching a show while I'm finishing off a website and cruising TY. OK, so now it's bath time.I get the water running, get the girls in the tub and come back out to do some work.
Hmmmmm, The computer monitor isn't on, but I hear this click, click, click noise.
I move the mouse.
Nothing.
I hit the power button.
Nothing.
Click, click click.
If I half press in the monitors power button, the orange light comes on.
Press it all of the way in, nothing.
No Light.
Click, click,click.
I run into the storage shed and grab a very olf 14 inch monitor and try it out.
OK, I get it working.
I take the Clicking monitor and plug it into another outlet and press the power button. The orange light comes on!
Hmmmm.
So I switch them back and turn on the monitor.
Orange light.
Good.
I turn on the computer, it starts to boot and at the point when the monitor should turn on, the orange light goes out, the green light doesn't come on and.........................
Click, click, click.
It turns on, but when there's a signal from the computer to it, it shites the bed.
So right now I'm trying to work on a 14 incher with a max of 800X600 with 60 hertz, a real pain when trying to finish a website at a higher resolution.
So now I have some questions for the more technically inclined.
The TV and the monitor sit side by side and always have with no problem. Could something in the borrowed TV had screwed the monitor?
(Right now I have a big kids book wrapped in foil between the two as sort of Polish shielding, just in case)
Does anyone know what might be possibly be wrong with the monitor from my very through, technical description and could I possibly fix it. I'm good with a soldering iron and poking around or should I just take it up to the roof and chuck it hard?
Damn!! I was hoping to use the money from the website to get a new TV and buy a pool pass for the kids, Now I guess I'll get a monitor and let the kids watch movies of other kids swimming.
Please don't offer me anything but advice or fixing suggestions (ie, yeah, just look for something that looks like this and change out this capacitor or something like that.
But mostly, I'm just mainly biatching. Kind of like when you put a new clutch in the car and a day after you get the car back, the alternator decides to give out, like it was envious of the clutch.
Somedays I think that the universe doesn't like me or at least just trying to keep that elusive peace-of-mind just out of my grasp.
I know it's a small problem, but right now it's just the cherry on the sundae of a biatch of a month.
Thanks,
TL