Into haxile I must go

[Hax]

Ugh, today my desktop pc decided it didn't like the idea of having a monitor plugged into it anymore, so here I am, on this ancient Asus Sempron 3000+ that I managed to salvage from the forsaken lands of the basement.

Oh well, I guess I have time now to:

- play bouzouki
- do more stuff for school >:|
- read some books


I don't expect to get my olde pc back for about a week, so I won't be here that much.

- Hax

PS I know this isn't the tech forums, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Apparently, the screen itself works fine, no problems whatsoever. I think the problem lies with the PC itself: after waking up, I immediately turned it on. The screen worked no problem, entered my password and walked downstairs to get some breakfast. When I returned, about ten minutes later, my screen said something like "no signal", while the plugs hadn't changed *at all*. Does anybody know what might be going on?

[Subotan]

Read some Hellboy Comics

[Fragony]

Green Lantern is better

[Subotan]

Never read that. But I like the occult references in Hellboy, and BPRD is just fantastic.

[Lemur]

If you never read some of the big comic epics, now's a good time. From Hell, the Sandman Series, the first four books of Cerebus. You know, brush up on the classics.

[rajpoot]

I don't claim to be good at this, but this sounds like a problem with the PSU....

I mean if your system is booting properly without any disk checks and all, and working fine and then just shuts down suddenly....most likely it's the PSU....

[Hax]

Actually, now that you mention it, I'm reading Milton's "Paradise Lost" as of the moment.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Ugh, today my desktop pc decided it didn't like the idea of having a monitor plugged into it anymore,

Ha, what a coincidence. Very similar happened to my desktop this night, four hours before you posted, as the connection between the tower and the monitor seemed to have been lost (the 'no VGA output message' - and I tried adjusting all the contacts of the wires, but at no avail; strangely enough, the tower was working well, and I could still hear the audio, although no video), but a quick reboot solved the problem.

What it did not solve was the half an hour of Anno 1701, and that went unsaved. In just about all my games, I save every ten minutes, but I always for some reason have to lose a load of playing time on several instances before the lesson hammers home...

So sorry to hear you lose your desktop functionality, but could you not take it to a local repair shop, if it seems too difficult to sort out yourself? Does it take them a whole week?