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I have a new monitor!
I was given a used 17" monitor, and it rocks! I did not know how fuzzy my old 17" NEC Multisync was getting, but this new one is wonderously sharp. I'm quite beside myself with joy. Honestly! Perhaps the sweetest thing about it is it is so LIGHT! Speaking as someone who has shlepped a lot of monitors over the years, a light 17"er is a great thing.
I jumped on City of Heroes last night for an hour or so, ran into my old friend Dan, and with this monitor, coupled with my new video card and new sound card, I had a great time. One mission that we did had vampire-generating pools, great visual effects with the water. Another mission we were fighting zombies, then later on, a giant tiki god. Dan sat back and played sniper and healed me while I ran in like a buzz saw mowing these things down. When I was chewing up the tiki god, there was Polynesian music playing, but only when you were close to it.
Lots of fun!
I jumped on City of Heroes last night for an hour or so, ran into my old friend Dan, and with this monitor, coupled with my new video card and new sound card, I had a great time. One mission that we did had vampire-generating pools, great visual effects with the water. Another mission we were fighting zombies, then later on, a giant tiki god. Dan sat back and played sniper and healed me while I ran in like a buzz saw mowing these things down. When I was chewing up the tiki god, there was Polynesian music playing, but only when you were close to it.
Lots of fun!
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We had three 23" monitors, but one was dead out of the box. We hooked up one, it went just fine. Hooked up the second, it went fine. Then the third was discovered DOA. The woman who got the second one was on vacation, so the third woman grabbed the monitor. But for some reason, the graphics card dind't support 1920x1024 resolution. So we did some poking around: turns out that her computer was different than the other two. Her motherboard died, and when they replaced it, she got a really cheap video card.
So I ended up swapping computers after having copied her hard drive's document area to the network, then reconfiguring her old video card to a lower resolution.
So we get to ship an expensive 23" monitor back from whence it came, and they have to buy a new video card, then we get to go back and redo everything! WHEEE!