This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Video Killed the Computer Screen
Nov
27
2012
Quick Quiz:
Of what is this a picture?
If you said “a desktop computer from around 2004” you are correct.
If you said “not a Mac” you are also correct.
If you said “Some Guy’s computer” you are also correct.
Thursday night, after all the non-festivities of the day, my wife started the computer but the screen was misbehaving. The picture was choppy and repeated and pixels were not where they should have been. I shut it off and figured I’d look at it the next day.
The next day, there was no picture at all. The monitor told us “No Signal”.
So I replaced the video card. I went from this:
to this:
No, I did not mix up those photos. The desktop computer had a fancy graphics card. I had to add the cooling system (heat sinks! heat-transfer tubes! a fan!) after the card kept resetting during Command & Conquer. That was years ago.
On Saturday, I pulled a video card out of one of my previous computers and plopped that one in the current desktop. Other than having to grab a VGA cable because the old card doesn’t support DVI, I had no problems.
Here’s how the cards compare:
I can’t run CnC anymore, but at least I know what I want for Christmas now.
For the Lord God of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion
In the valley of vision,
A breaking down of walls
And a crying to the mountain.
Isaiah 22:5
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:08 pm and has been carefully placed in the Technical category.
November 29th, 2012 at 10:52 am
That’s the inside of your computer? For shame, SG, for shame.
{Runs off to check his own tower}
November 29th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
That was the inside of my computer.
Now it has a much smaller video card and is slightly less dusty.