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Today I not only have one, but two computers to complain about.
The first, the desktop, is not actualy the box this time. No, .wav files still don't work. But this morning I go to check my email, and the computer screen is a lovely shade of magenta. After a fiddled with the monitor for a little bit, I got the deep magenta cast to turn into a light green. But since I can't tolerate more than ten minutes on it until I start getting a headache, the monitor will probably need to be replaced again. Since the monitor was replaced last June, the problem is doublely irritaing.
The other computer problem is also on a desktop, but this is a entirely new problem. When Dad and I helped move my sister, she gifted us with her old desktop, which I was all exicted to have since it has a cd burner and other hardware goodies like a co-axial input. I finaly find our old monitor, not the one that we replaced in June, but the one that went with the computer that ran Windows 3.0. For a monitor thats nearly ten years old, it works pretty good.
And no, I can't replace the broken monitor with this one because the connecters are diffrent.
Anyway, first the computer pops up with a pri slave hdd error, which is fixable, then it takes a v. v. long time to get to the login window, when it gets to it at all, since yesterday it sat their booting for two hours, then it's password protected, and the password doesn't work.
This has pretty much sealed the boxs fate as a server, because since it's a lot more useful than the faux-tivo I was considering, and I'm even less inclined to switch that computer to the main desktop and turn the current desktop into a server.
The first, the desktop, is not actualy the box this time. No, .wav files still don't work. But this morning I go to check my email, and the computer screen is a lovely shade of magenta. After a fiddled with the monitor for a little bit, I got the deep magenta cast to turn into a light green. But since I can't tolerate more than ten minutes on it until I start getting a headache, the monitor will probably need to be replaced again. Since the monitor was replaced last June, the problem is doublely irritaing.
The other computer problem is also on a desktop, but this is a entirely new problem. When Dad and I helped move my sister, she gifted us with her old desktop, which I was all exicted to have since it has a cd burner and other hardware goodies like a co-axial input. I finaly find our old monitor, not the one that we replaced in June, but the one that went with the computer that ran Windows 3.0. For a monitor thats nearly ten years old, it works pretty good.
And no, I can't replace the broken monitor with this one because the connecters are diffrent.
Anyway, first the computer pops up with a pri slave hdd error, which is fixable, then it takes a v. v. long time to get to the login window, when it gets to it at all, since yesterday it sat their booting for two hours, then it's password protected, and the password doesn't work.
This has pretty much sealed the boxs fate as a server, because since it's a lot more useful than the faux-tivo I was considering, and I'm even less inclined to switch that computer to the main desktop and turn the current desktop into a server.
