Fucking Hell.

[jackshoegazer]

I had a long and frustrating and not-very-profitable day at work.  Ethan went to his mother's house.  Jacquelyn is at the opera with brdgt.  I arrive home to a dark and empty house.  I turn to my trusty friend the internet and poof, my monitor flashes black a few times and goes out.  Now, instead of at least getting some writing done while ignoring the persistent growl of my belly, I will now spend my evening on Jacquelyn's laptop chatting with a Dell representative from India, trying to figure out what's wrong. I want to scream and punch a deity in the face.  It doesn't matter which one.  Probably not Shiva Nataraja, that's my favorite.

EDIT1:
I'm going to call it now - the video card is fucked.  Now I will wait and wait to see if my Indian Helper comes to the same conclusion.

EDIT2:
I am either totally right or half-right.  It is either the DVI cable or the DVI portion of the video card.  It seems to work when I switch to the VGA cable.  (My God, VGA is so blurry after one gets used to the awesomeness that is digital!)

EDIT3:
Dell won't send me a new cable until they know it is definitely the issue - which means, I have to buy or borrow a DVI cable to test my computer to see if it's the cable or the card.  Anyone got an extra DVI cable laying around?

Comments

[the-wondering-1.livejournal.com]

I really hate computer trouble and I <3 your icon.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

That's such a good movie. I've almost received it like three times from Swapadvd.Com but something always happens and it hasn't arrived yet. Grrrr.

[the-wondering-1.livejournal.com]

that sucks, it's one of my favorite movies :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Same here, which is why I need to own it desperately. I am still far behind on replacing all of the movies I used to own on VHS :(