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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 08:42:01 pm

Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 08:42:01 pm
I think I just killed my monitor. There's all this gray streaky **** everywhere to either side of anything dark, and all the text has a kinda glow around it, looks funky... I think I've seen this stuff before in a monitor, but I can't recall just where...


EDIT: Damn, the autocensor even does titles. What **** is that?
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Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Anaz on April 08, 2003, 09:13:22 pm
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 09:16:36 pm
Nah, this one ain't drug-related. I'd do a screen-capture to demonstrate, but seeing as it's a monitor problem you'd have to be using my monitor to see it, ya know?


Sheesh, you do one frickin' post about the melting bats, and suddenly you're just a stoner...:rolleyes:
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Blue Lion on April 08, 2003, 09:17:00 pm
Take a photo
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 09:18:51 pm
Of what, exactly? An ugly-ass screen with streaky ****? dip your hand in some ink and wipe it horizontally across the screen, you'll have a fair idea what I'm talking about. Only uglier, and varying with whatever's on the screen...
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 09:22:39 pm
Maybe if I gave it a good whack...

Edit: Nope. Pretty colors, though.
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Anaz on April 08, 2003, 09:32:06 pm
wiggle the monitor cables on both ends?
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 08, 2003, 09:34:52 pm
Nawp. Though before I tried I was willing to give even money that if I tried on the monitor end it would just come off in my hand.


At least the problem would be identified, then.

EDIT: Crap, I hit it again, and all the **** that's resting on top of it fell off. Some of it was sharp and metal. I think I'll stop hitting it now. Mommy...
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Carl on April 08, 2003, 10:42:08 pm
:lol: serves you right for being stupid.
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Knight Templar on April 08, 2003, 11:09:42 pm
On a semi-related note: It's axe girls' birthday
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 09, 2003, 06:47:37 am
Just get a new monitor. A pink one.
Title: Re: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Razor on April 09, 2003, 11:10:47 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think I just killed my monitor. There's all this gray streaky **** everywhere to either side of anything dark, and all the text has a kinda glow around it, looks funky... I think I've seen this stuff before in a monitor, but I can't recall just where...


EDIT: Damn, the autocensor even does titles. What **** is that?
[color=66ff00]My work, you don't follow the rules you get treated like the child you are.
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I'll have to quote Vinni Gognitti on this case
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I knew there was something screwy bout you
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Zaxzon on April 09, 2003, 10:59:59 pm
Did you check that your vid card is working properly? Or did you d/l some funky fonts? That sometimes can be a problem, but I think your monitor is shot.  Do you have a burial fund set up for it?
Title: Holy mother of ****...
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 09, 2003, 11:02:52 pm
Nope (broke), though I might have scored a slightly dented but still functional one, can't tell yet... See, there are advantages to all the messing around in other peoples' dumpsters. Why, just the other day I got a 4X CD burner for a Mac...:D


Man, this SUCKS. This was a NICE MONITOR.





Okay, it was a piece of ****, but it was the biggest ****ing thing I've ever seen, and the resolution was something incredible. I guess I kinda got what I deserved, going for a Sylvania monitor when their lightbulbs hardly last a week...