Posted: 12/8/2008 8:38 PM
Post subject: Let's help GreenaLink fix his computers!
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arflech
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That way he will be able to finish his epic Wario Land TAS: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=186508#186508 Okay, in that thread the first thing I suspected is that something is wrong with his monitor or sound card, like maybe the monitor wasn't made to work well with the card, and I remember something like that when I tried to replace the stock LCD monitor on my Dell (which still had its stock sound card) with an LCD monitor from a friend's HP and it didn't show a picture at all, so now I use a clunky (but very high-res) CRT.
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Posted: 12/9/2008 3:08 AM
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in Greenalink's case, it's either a bad monitor or bad video card... and it will only get worse with time. about your situation, arflech... I don't know but did the LCD monitor fail completely? I mean, not even the BIOS boot screen showed up?
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Posted: 12/9/2008 3:23 AM
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GreenaLink wrote:
I've been having some technical issues with my main PC that I can't properly continue my TAS. I got my work saved on my external harddrive. I got another PC in the house but SOMETIMES the screens gets screwed up so bad it's unreadable.
Needs more info. "Screwed up"? pics would be useful. Sometimes makes me believe it could be a power supply problem (a spike/drop in power can cause graphics memory to lose things). But from what's been said it could be anything. PSU, display, video card, you name it. Get more info from him and I'll help solve his problem.
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Posted: 12/9/2008 3:54 AM
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arflech
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
about your situation, arflech... I don't know but did the LCD monitor fail completely? I mean, not even the BIOS boot screen showed up?
Now that I remember, I think it only had a serious problem with the BIOS boot screen, like it wasn't capable of displaying that video mode; my setup had OpenSolaris as the OS on the boot partition of my first hard disk, and though I intended to get into that more I still fell back on Windows, but I couldn't easily navigate through the boot menu anymore:( When I managed to get it to boot into Windows, I wouldn't be able to tell until the higher video mode showed up, and then I was dismayed to see that this screen could only go up to 1024x768 and it often froze up. I wanted a cheap replacement for my burnt-out LCD but now I guess I'll be on the prowl for discarded Dell LCDs in the sub-$50 range (lol).
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