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Nik · 23rd September 2007, 02:24 AM

Um, bad enough getting "No Signal" from cell-phone, but when you fire up Browser_PC after a fortnight's holiday and see it splashed across the flat-screen...

Good news, I'd taken a back-up of essentials. Bad news, my hit-rate on PC builds hovers around 50%...

I checked all the usual sillies, evicted a clan of dust-bunnies from the case, re-seated the graphics card *twice* then spotted the real problem...

The primary display's KVM switch had hopped channels to one of my adjacent CAD tower PCs. Seems that PSU had come up with stand-by voltage a whisker before this Browser_PC's...

D'uh...
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FWIW, I had backed-up my tales, research archive, emails, favourites, passwords etc etc on a USB hard-drive.

On holiday, armed with laptop, USB drive and a *lot* of sleep, I tidied one of my half-written tales, but could not continue it even by a line. I tried to write a better opening for 'Soft Target', but words would not come. At least I found a title for that other tale, now 'The Curious Case of the Adventitious Artistes'.

To my chagrin, my trusty CD thesaurus and reference set would not work because the lap-top's browser was IE6 instead of IE5. And the 3D Connexions' 6DoF space-whatsit I'd packed to play with would not run because the lap-top's Install-Shield was too old...

Well, we're home again, and I can work through my list of googles: First, gotta research the ways and means of orange K-type main-sequence stars...

23rd September 2007, 02:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
Nik Speaker to Cats Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK: ENGLAND: Posts: 308	"No Signal" Um, bad enough getting "No Signal" from cell-phone, but when you fire up Browser_PC after a fortnight's holiday and see it splashed across the flat-screen... Good news, I'd taken a back-up of essentials. Bad news, my hit-rate on PC builds hovers around 50%... I checked all the usual sillies, evicted a clan of dust-bunnies from the case, re-seated the graphics card twice then spotted the real problem... The primary display's KVM switch had hopped channels to one of my adjacent CAD tower PCs. Seems that PSU had come up with stand-by voltage a whisker before this Browser_PC's... D'uh... --- FWIW, I had backed-up my tales, research archive, emails, favourites, passwords etc etc on a USB hard-drive. On holiday, armed with laptop, USB drive and a lot of sleep, I tidied one of my half-written tales, but could not continue it even by a line. I tried to write a better opening for 'Soft Target', but words would not come. At least I found a title for that other tale, now 'The Curious Case of the Adventitious Artistes'. To my chagrin, my trusty CD thesaurus and reference set would not work because the lap-top's browser was IE6 instead of IE5. And the 3D Connexions' 6DoF space-whatsit I'd packed to play with would not run because the lap-top's Install-Shield was too old... Well, we're home again, and I can work through my list of googles: First, gotta research the ways and means of orange K-type main-sequence stars...