On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 22:45, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > ok, in windows you can right click on "my computer" and it gives you hardware > profiles and you can see if everything is working correctly. > > 1st question....where do you do that in mandrake 9.1? i think i saw it before > but can't seem to find it now. > > 2nd question....can you test your hardware for problems? > > reason i ask is i've had some minor problems with my video card before. when > the computer would go into "power save" mode and turn the moniter off, half > the time the moniter wouldn't come back on, it would give me an error (can't > remember what it was). i got around that problem by turning that feature off > and just manually turned the moniter off. well, earlier today, my moniter > got REAL fuzzy, as in, could barely read the screen. i logged out of linux > and jumped over to windows, same thing. then turned the comp off, restarted > it, same thing again in linux and in windows. then i switched moniters and > the problem is gone. yes, that would generally mean that it's the moniter > that is bad, but it's a brand new moniter, not even 2 weeks old. anyway, > just wondering if i can test the vid card while it's in the computer just to > be certain it's the moniter and not the video card. Thanks! > > >
1. Mandrake Control Centre - Hardware - Harddrake
2. Swapping monitors back would seem to be pretty conclusive.
Long gone (I hope) are the days when you would have to call out the TV
repairman (etc) every 6 months, electronics today are generally very
reliable AFTER the breaking in period, i.e. its more likely to go belly
up in the first couple of weeks than after. New doesn't always mean
reliable.
Paul M.
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
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