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[omg-teh-funnay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just became one of Them

About six weeks ago, my 21" CRT popped. Made a noise, went dark. Couldn't get it to come back up. Reseated everything, reset everything, no dice. So I grabbed the backup CRT, and a week later IT popped. Figure it's the hardware on my lappy, I'll just go without.

Not 20 minutes ago, tech comes in, sees my two dead monitors, asks if he can have them. Sure, whatever, I can't make them work

He comes back in 5 minutes ago, says "Yeah, they work GREAT when you set the Input back to one"

I have been well and truly pwnt.

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[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

.....and that folks, is how I got the 20" flat panel sitting on my desk. The sad thing is, the IT person filling in for me AND some tech from computer services missed this detail.

So don't feel bad, you are not alone.

[jecook]

D'oh!

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

it's missing little details like that, that tell me it's time to go the hell home and take a nap. :)

[omg-teh-funnay.livejournal.com]

I'd ask him for it back, but I kinda feel he's earned it. And I"m trying to talk MY management into giving me a 19" LCD

My exact comment was "I'm not smart enough to use a monitor, apparently"

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Or drink. Heavily.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

hm, true. very true. i lean toward naps because i don't sleep enough anyway but i guess drinking heavily will help lead to a nap. sort of. *smirk*

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

To me, drinking before sleep is like pounding a pillow to fluff it up before laying down. Only they're brain cells. But they deserve a good pounding, if only for leading me into help desk work.

[shirenomad]

All my tech support experience is software, not hardware, so your terminology is going slightly over my head... does "set the Input back to one" mean "turn it back on"?

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

i like that analogy, a lot.

[canray.livejournal.com]

It's a pain for Monitors, and a royal one to try and explain how to change the Inputs on a Television when you're dealing with an idiot over the phone. :-S

Especially when you're working the Internet Tech Support Line, and the Manager is standing right behind you so you can't transfer them back to the TV Support Idio... I mean, Representantives that transfered them to me.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Not entirely your fault, multi-input monitors aren't very common, and they certainly are not supposed to spontaneously change inputs.

[vxo.livejournal.com]

Oh man.. o.o

I have to admit, I've scammed hardware off of people that way... it's pretty awful.

I've also gone to the point of convincing someone that something was broken and that it should be thrown away, just so I could later scoop it up for my own uses... in those cases, however, they were genuinely wanting an upgrade before.

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

LOL...

I actually had to point this out to our image bench crew...I took some new computers with DVI out and they couldn't get them working with their monitors.

I went in and pushed a button. Image bench crew almost all simultaneously slapped their foreheads with an exclamation of "D'OH!" that would make Homer Simpson proud.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Almost did that once - large org was throwing out some ancient 21" CRTs as part of a hugely overdue revamp (this was pre-LCD tech). After moving one of those monsters around, I found the red color gun had apparently died. It was only a couple of hours later that I noticed each RGB color had a tiny unmarked beige microswitch on the back which controlled whether that color showed up on the screen at all. I'd apparently pressed it when I'd grabbed the casing to haul it between desks. Tapped the switch once and the red came back.

Of course, what I should have done was 'disabled' one or more of the guns, and then picked it up for cheap at the third-party auction it was all going to. Didn't think about that until it was all offsite, though.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Got a lovely set of desktop stereo speakers in a rather similar fashion.

They look wonderful in my living room.