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To: mr.mark who wrote (20467)	6/9/2001 5:21:55 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I got the shakes so bad, I had to lay off my second monitor.... Hi mark, We'll if it's not one damn thing, it's another*. Or......... this time I can whine about hardware for a change.... So, I've got a two-headed puter setup here. (Used to be three, but I already blew up one video card I haven't quite gotten around to replacing. Hehe) My second CRT display has just over the past couple of days started to act up. The image will start to get the heeby-jeebies, the DTs, the shakes, or jitters... whichever description turns your crank. The condition is seemingly random, coming and going and not really consistent. I'm suspecting that the video card, a Virge S3 is about on its last legs, but it could be almost anything, I reckon. I'm wondering if you or anyone on the thread has an idea about how to go about troubleshooting this latest poltergeist? Interesting aside: Last December, I lost my NC address book. Well not the whole thing, but I lost the ability to see the contents inside the address book though I could still click on the blank screen inside the dialogue box and enter an address into Messenger. Needless to say, I came up with many ideas of what might be happening. The one that I didn't come up with, but proved to be the culprit only was discovered about 6 weeks later. After having any number of other unrelated glitches with software and finally with hardware (remember that dead video cards I just mentioned?), I finally took the computer to one expert, my OEM, who reinstalled all the software. Paid him an outrageous fee and the very next day the computer died. Took it to another expert, more of a white hat type, who discovered that I'd inadvertently failed to blow enough dust out of my power supply. The net result was that the volcanic dust in this area (Bend, OR) contains enough metallic elements that it formed little short circuit bridges in the Power Supply and eventually killed to power supply. But not before giving me about 2 months of conniption fits trying to sort out all the crazy things that were going wrong with the puter. Needless to say, I have gotten the puter about 5 feet off the floor and am religious now in using canned air to blow the darn thing out. I offer this suggestion in the spirit of Warren Buffett's wise words about investing: "It's useful to learn from the mistakes of others, because one can't possibly afford to make them all oneself." Cheerio, Ray :) *Or, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, so wisely, so long ago: "It isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over again."