-- I've been looking at Dell, and wondering about Alienware. I'll keep both of those in mind.
Further update: Old monitor has been shipped, rental has been acquired and set up (as should be obvious from this message's timestamp). Complication:
rental did not like the digital connection, insisted there was no signal -- analog works fine. So... big question: bad cable, or did part of my graphics card
burn out on me? Time to run to Radio Shack or somewhere for a new digital cable to test... Either way, it still doesn't explain why the old monitor stopped
responding to its front panel controls. Maybe something shorted in the digital circuitry and surged the monitor? Advice, theories and guesses from folks with
more hardware experience than I've had in the last twenty years solicited...
(Edit: I'm too used to wide-screen monitors. A 20-inch 4:3 monitor is freaking huge. I shoulda gone with the
17-incher after all.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Further update: Old monitor has been shipped, rental has been acquired and set up (as should be obvious from this message's timestamp). Complication:
rental did not like the digital connection, insisted there was no signal -- analog works fine. So... big question: bad cable, or did part of my graphics card
burn out on me? Time to run to Radio Shack or somewhere for a new digital cable to test... Either way, it still doesn't explain why the old monitor stopped
responding to its front panel controls. Maybe something shorted in the digital circuitry and surged the monitor? Advice, theories and guesses from folks with
more hardware experience than I've had in the last twenty years solicited...
(Edit: I'm too used to wide-screen monitors. A 20-inch 4:3 monitor is freaking huge. I shoulda gone with the
17-incher after all.)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.