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Comments (13)ok i now THINK i have some real answers to this. i brought in the 22" wide monitor and exchanged it for a 19" wide samsung. my res s/b 1440 x 900 BUT guess what? again i can not find it!!! i tried to get it off the samsung site and even called them. they told me i needed to get the correct video card drivers. ok so i called the shop.... again... and told them what's happening. i have the correct video drivers there's no doubt about that. see, when they built this pc instead of it being a 32 bit vista os it's 64 bit and that in conjunction with the amd processor makes this a very very fast pc. this is good. BUT the 64 bit is the problem! apparently vista is typically 32 bit. this is why the 22" wide view sonic also had driver issues - i need drivers for vista 64 bit not 32 bit. they told me they'd find the correct driver and burn a cd for me. they were very nice and had no issue exchanging the monitor. i like the service and would recommend them to anyone so there's no problems. mike, the owner, told me i might be better off with a square rather than a wide monitor but at this point i really don't want to tell him i want a 19" square vs the 19" wide they just gave me 2 hours ago. also... i think i made a mistake getting vista, i thought i made a wise choice but now i wonder. i heard that ms was dropping support for xp in 6/2009 so i figured why buy a pc with an os that will not be supported in 13 months. so i opted for vista even tho i used xp pro in work for years and know it fairly well. honestly, if i could turn the clock back 2 weeks, i'd go with xp not vista, probably would have only needed 1 gb ram not 2 gb and xp was a less expensive os. but i am not going to ask him to take vista off and put xp on unless there's a major problem that arises with vista. it's a pain for him and he may not do that for free (!!), i'll lose all my docs and pictures and address book i've set up on this pc. i just don't want to go theu that and he'll think i am a kook, which i really don't think i am but i am learning as i go and now think xp would have been the better choice. but this pc is nice and dsl is really fast (768 kbps) and i am a happy camper. this monitor even at 1600 x 900 vs the 1440 x 900 looks better, 22" was too big. hopefully they'll get the right driver and this will be 1440 x 900. thanks to all who helped me! tom...See MoreMonitor/speaker question
Comments (41)OK, Zep. You've got the banana care nailed! A couple of ornamental (you don't want to eat the fruit, because it's full of seeds) varieties can survive in cold areas, like here in NY, with that kind of care. Edible varieies, around here, have to come inside for the winter. Now to the subject at hand: I got nowhere with the Creative link. I just got an error, HTTP 404 Not Found. When I clicked on, "Publisher: Creative", I got to a place where there were so many of these things that I didn't know which one was the right one. At the Gateway link, they asked for the serial number. (0016653113) When I gave them that, and clicked on a few other things that they told me to do, I got this instruction: "Insert System Restoration Kit Drivers CD in the System Restoration Kit Window." I found the System Restoration CD, and I guess there's really only one place I can insert it. On the disc itself, it says to reinstall some old Windows operating systems, start the PC with the disc inserted, and to install system software and drivers, insert the disc while the PC is on. So, I guess I start up the PC, and put the disc in. If I remember correctly, from the few times I have used any restorations, long ago, you restore to a certain date. A date, when I still had sound, was before I took the 'puter in for service. If I restore to a date like that, while restoring my sound, am I not also restoring the problems that prompted me to take the machine in for service, in the first place?...See MoreGreat idea about door lock monitoring
Comments (2)At my shop, there is one walk-in door and two big garage doors. One of the doors is 20 wide and 14 high. When the deadbolt is locked on the walk-in, the bolt pushes a switch that shuts off the "raise" buttons for the garage doors....See MoreCynic or another computer person- laptop monitor question
Comments (7)DH laid it in the back floor of the car and then forgot about it. He moved the seat back and squished it (the screen was against the seat and the actual computer part was "possibly" protected since the screen was between it and the seat. I may just have to invest in a hard side case instead of a soft side one. So far I have gotten everything off- still need to dig out the internet bookmarks. I am actually using it right now to send this. The right side of the screen scrolls very quickly by itself (think old B/W TVs where you had to adjust the connected rabbit ears) then there is a giant white section and then the left 1/3 of the screen works but has black sports the size of a silver dollar. I just ran my statistical software and the analysis is coming out like it did this morning. This is a snapshot of the laptop screen (I added the red square to show that is supposed to be my desktop. When I do an "Alt+PrtSc" and save it as a picture, I get the whole desktop (hope I do not offend anyone with my pic, it is from LOL-Cat and so cute!) I just used my level and it appears to NOT be warped... tried it on the desk and the floor because the house and desk are both over 100 years old and not that level, themselves... but the button in the level appears to be in the same spot where it is sitting directly on the desk or on the laptop sitting on the desk. Since the alt-print screen show everything and the software appears to be working, am I fairly safe that the computer is okay? What else should I do to check the hard drive? THANK YOU!!!!...See More- 5 years ago
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