Now it’s my monitor…
For the perverse enthusiasts of my hardware woes, you’ll be happy to know that my one-year-old ViewSonic monitor has bitten the dust. It shimmies almost all the time and there are inch-wide vertical margins of fuzziness on either side of the beast. Also, it seems to me to run dark.
ViewSonic’s customer support is excellent — 24/7 and efficient. (One beef: the tech supporters don’t have access to the registration database, so you have to move 70 lbs. of dead weight to get at the serial number on the back.) So, now I’m off to Staples to get a box and packing materials.
Please note that the shimmying continues even though it’s now plugged into an APC XS 1500 monster of a UPS that reports I’m only drawing 350 out of the 1,500 watts it can handle. And the UPS is plugged into one of the new 20 amp lines coming into my office.
Our electric supplier is going to check the voltage coming in. He is not bringing an exorcist with him. Yet.
What a mess! What did the electrician say, anyhow, when he came out and ran the new line(s) for you? Did he do any diagnostics first?
I suspect the ViewSonic simply couldn’t handle the power problems you were having — but there’s a remote chance you had a product failure, too.
Yeah, next step, exorcism. Feng shui consultant and maybe a little extra chocolate applied strategically. (Can’t supply a testimonial on the feng shui or exorcism, but chocolate works for me.)
And yeah, agreed, what’s with the equipment industry? Can’t they find a way to put ID on the front of equipment without impacting the appeareance?
Hey, atleast your not looking up the serials on 40 21in moniters ;)
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