[wplug] Just need to vent...

[Brian S. Woolstrum]

Try just moving the card and making sure it is connected to
the tv at boot up.  My bios doesn't let me turn off the on
board video either, but it has an autodetect capability so
that it choosed whichever card has something connected to
it.

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, techmike wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:15:22 -0400
> From: techmike <mikeslists at access995.com>
> Reply-To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] Just need to vent...
>
> Sorry, Just need to vent..
>
> Dont you just love it when your company won't buy any decent hardware so
> you're forced to work with circa 1990 computers?
>
> This morning I was in at 7:30 to find our win98 box we have displaying
> stats on a tv-monitor has BSODed again..  (more frequently lately).
>
> I have another box with the software already on it running 2k pro, so I
> think I'll just swap the tv-out video card to the other box.
>
> But it couldn't be that simple, the other box is a oem HP box with pheonix
> bios and no way to disable the on board video.  Yet the board has an agp
> slot.  <sigh>
>
> It's 9:10 now, and I just got everything back to the way it was and I'm
> nuking and repaving the bsoding machine..
>
> Really seems like my linux boxes are the least problematic lately..
>
> Anyone else deal with this sort of thing at work, looking like a fool
> because you cannot accomplish a certain task with your sub-par hardware?  :)
>
> First person to send me an off-list email with a work horror story gets a
> gmail invite..  :)
>
> Thank you for letting me vent..
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
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Brian S. Woolstrum   AB3BT
Principal System/Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
4909 Frew Street, Hunt Library
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
412-268-2317