Where Were You!
So I guess you’re saying to yourself, where has that lazy bugger been? I’ve been here twice and there’s nothing new. WrTF is she?
Let me tell you what I’ve been up to.
On Wednesday I bought myself a new video card. Since I now have two monitors at work, I figured I’d set up the two monitors at home so things would be similar. Since my video card only had one output, I had to buy another one (a couple of hundred dollars because I needed a fairly good one so I could still play games). I got the eGeForce 7800GS which, I’m advised, will be much better than the $70 card they were originally offering me.
So I took it home, opened up my computer, took out my old card and put in the new one. I hooked everything back up and, voila, nothing worked. And as a matter of fact, my computer was now making this very unique squealing noise. Listen below.
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I do quite the good impression of a squealing computer, I must say.
So I thought to myself, “hey, that doesn’t seem right, I don’t remember my computer squealing before”, and, I, of course, was right. My computer is not supposed to squeal. So I couldn’t use the computer that night because I didn’t know WTF was going on and I wasn’t going to go through all that effort of pulling apart the computer, pulling out the card, putting back the old card, and plugging everything back in.
So the next day I took my computer over to Tiger Direct (where I bought the card and so many other things) and said, “hey, is it supposed to squeal like this?” [play dramatic, and oh so unique sound above].
They showed me these cables that came with the card and told me to hook them up like this [sorry, no videos], then plugged in my computer and all was well with the world again. Hmmmph, in the instructions it said something like, “if you need extra power, use those cables”. I didn’t know I needed extra power and therefore did not plug those in.
That night I took my computer home, hooked it up, got everything set up for the two monitor scenario, only to find that I had misplaced the cord for my old monitor.
So I now have two monitors hooked up to my computer, but I can only use one of them, and I’ll be damned if I was going out and buying another monitor since I already had two.
So I did a google on the brand name and found someone on eBay selling the power adapter for my monitor and I bought it. It’s coming from the States and it’s cost me $29.90 including shipping. I have no idea how long it’ll take to get here, but let’s hope it’s soon so I can revel in my dual life.
And that, boys and girls, is what I’ve been doing with my time. Right now I’m just waiting for my daughter and ex to show up so I can give my daughter her vacation money to take down to Newfoundland for a week, and lend my ex a suitcase for her clothes.
That’s that. I hope they have a good trip and that my daughter has a safe flight there and back. It should be a nice experience, an airplane flight. I was about her age too the first time I was on an airplane. That was way, way back before I became scared of any woosy thing you can think of.
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BFG, you’re right… we are all rich here in Canada. Just can’t help it – free health care too, oh, I’ll just rub that in now. Next thing ya know, I’ll have to get four monitors, we rich Canadians are never satisfied with what we’ve got – always gotta flaunt that money around – oh, and money for shelving those four monitors too, don’t forget that.
Hmmm, what else can I buy? 
My previous computer made that kind of noise after installing a new graphics card because the motherboard didn’t support AGP 3.0. Luckily, it was upgradeable.
Why can’t it just, I don’t know, say “me no like this card”?
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Sounds like your “ex” is still attached to your apron strings. ;(
Good on the monitor thing, well part of two is one, and one is a good number of monitors if you cant afford to have two like those rich Canadians….
Oh yes nice squeel too, I had a UPS that did that every time the power went off, as if to say “hey dumbass, now the powers off and the lights are off I need to wake you up with this annoying noise, ha ha”.