Some good news....
Dec. 19th, 2006 04:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1In order to determine the source of the "smearing problem" I'm having on my desktop computer, I hooked up my laptop to the monitor. I saw no smearing of the black lettering across the page. Therefore, it's a problem with the video card. That's much cheaper to fix than buying a new monitor.
The bad news is that I might not be able to find a replacement video card (Diamond Viper V770, I believe), unless I look on eBay. (I just did and there are several available.) The desktop system is nearly seven years old, and I can't afford a full system upgrade right now. And so I make do with what I have.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna says, "It's always somethin'."
I wouldn't mind buying "last year's model", but computer makers want to sell you the latest and greatest. When Vista rolls out to consumers in late January, will people still be able to purchase a system with XP preinstalled? I don't need or want Vista, and if I did, I'd prefer to wait until service pack 1 comes out for it.
The bad news is that I might not be able to find a replacement video card (Diamond Viper V770, I believe), unless I look on eBay. (I just did and there are several available.) The desktop system is nearly seven years old, and I can't afford a full system upgrade right now. And so I make do with what I have.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna says, "It's always somethin'."
I wouldn't mind buying "last year's model", but computer makers want to sell you the latest and greatest. When Vista rolls out to consumers in late January, will people still be able to purchase a system with XP preinstalled? I don't need or want Vista, and if I did, I'd prefer to wait until service pack 1 comes out for it.
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