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lhgpoobaa   04-16-2002 at 03:57:46 AM

cool. only ever seen this once before, many years ago on a poor monitor that displayed some unix command line.

but this HP system here at work is relitavely new, p3-600 or so... yet its got the ubiquitous novel login window burnt into the center of the monitor... wierd.

anyone else seen that?

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Anonymous   04-16-2002 at 04:04:27 AM
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Cough up the credit card number first and I will tell you. :tongue:

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zpyrd   04-16-2002 at 05:24:26 AM
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Not recently.
But it still happens to people who don't shut their monitors off at work and leave the same window open overnight and on weekends.

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dhlucke   04-16-2002 at 05:29:17 AM
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I see it all the time. This is what happens if you don't have a screensaver and you leave your computer on 24 hours a day.

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lhgpoobaa   04-16-2002 at 05:39:16 AM
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mmmmm

and they just LOVE running these monitors at 800x600 @ 60hz too! even under fluorescent lights too. shocking.

fortunately at home i institute a far better policy allround.

800x600 @ 120
1024x768 @ 100
and monitor goes to low power mode after only 5 minutes of inactivity :)

wonder how much electricity is wasted for a single monitor to be on almost all of the time?
must be buckloads each year

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zpyrd   04-16-2002 at 05:56:26 AM
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I have my monitor set to screensaver after 15 minutes and standby after 30 minutes.

1024 x 768 @ 85Hz

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lhgpoobaa   04-16-2002 at 06:54:16 AM
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i dont bother with a screensaver... besides, it wastes valuable cpu time that could be spent running cure for cancer. :smile:

and i would try for 1024x768 @ 117hz, but that would require me reinstalling some modified win2k detonator drivers.... and im too lazy

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mbetea   04-16-2002 at 07:12:20 AM
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bah! screensavers are for chics :tongue: . i run my two monitors at 2560x1024@85. they shut off after 2min.

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zpyrd   04-16-2002 at 07:14:42 AM
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I got Delled.
I got Delled three times.
Can't complain about the first two Dellings.
My third Dell arrives on Friday.

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dhlucke   04-16-2002 at 07:15:11 AM
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Holy crap! Can you read the text at that resolution or do you have a massive monitor?

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mbetea   04-16-2002 at 07:19:21 AM
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i got 2 17" viewsonics side by side. with matrox card you can use them 2 ways. stretch the one desktop to both or run each with seperate rez/refresh/etc. so really both monitors are running each at 1280x1024.

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dhlucke   04-16-2002 at 07:33:57 AM
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That's cool. I did that for a while, but my monitors were different sizes and quality.

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scamtrOn   04-16-2002 at 07:54:21 AM
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i'm hungry

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zpyrd   04-16-2002 at 08:08:24 AM
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Ok

May I suggest a Snickers candy bar?

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scamtrOn   04-16-2002 at 08:16:10 AM
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oh yeah, once hunger is out of me way i can take my head out of the cows ass

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lhgpoobaa   04-16-2002 at 09:14:07 AM
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did u know that dell dont use ATX compatible PSU's or motherboards?

they look compatible, but people have found that the connector pins have been changed around by dell, and only dell, so that you can only buy dell replacments!!!

and if u usesomething else the result can be nasty component death.
12v down the earth line anyone?

very underhanded of them.
and i bet they are marketed as atx compatible...except in the mega fine print

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svol   04-16-2002 at 04:35:49 PM
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Another prove that Dell sucks.

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svol   04-16-2002 at 05:24:53 PM
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Don't they even have moving login windows like Win2k?

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zpyrd   04-16-2002 at 05:43:16 PM
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My first Delling was a Dimension that I sold last year.
My second Delling is a Inspiron 4000 Laptop.
My third Delling arrives this week which is a Inspiron 8100 Laptop.



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slvr_phoenix   04-16-2002 at 05:50:31 PM
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I see images burned into screens all the time at banks and grocery stores. They seem to like to keep their ancient dos and unix software, and many times without a screen saver. So their crappy little 14 inch monitors get burned a lot.

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lhgpoobaa   04-17-2002 at 01:42:13 AM
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nope... due to pecularities with our network and software incompatibilities, win98, win2k and even xp have troubles running, thus, a couple of them, including the one in question still have glorious win95!

so when people DO use em half the time they crash... or loose settings... or just go bananas. thus they arnt used very much.

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Flamethrower205   04-17-2002 at 01:58:45 AM
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Lol, same at my school w/ teh 60Hz and all. Well, a little registry edit file i made and task scheduler fixed that:) Naturally teh system admin got pissed, and ghosted EVERY computer over again. Lol, he hates my ass (he's not exactl system admin, more of a guy who works at an authorized dell tech center and comes in and fixes our comps- scary ass guy, like 6'7"!) Anyways, we're getting a REAL system admin next year (the oreious one got fired), and hopefully we'll become freinds, and I'll get to tweak, like I did to before w/o anyone caring:)

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camieabz   04-17-2002 at 04:29:06 AM
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bump.

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zpyrd   04-17-2002 at 04:55:46 PM
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Another Bump

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