[tech] cephalopod and monitors

[Alex Dawson]

Bob,

After buying it in 2001 with money from her grandmother's will, using  
it for several years, my wife donated that monitor to UCC. The monitor  
did that unless it had hsync. It had been repaired once and they  
forgot to turn that feature off in a new IC that was installed. We  
never made an issue of it, remembering to turn it off when we turned  
the computer off.

If the computer it was connected to had problems, there would be no  
hsync, and of course it would just display "burn in". Yes, it's kinda  
annoying, but you should have tested it with another computer.

So basically, by my reading, UCC threw out a working monitor we  
donated. Thanks.

Kinda glad I didn't leave my media PC there now.

On 03/08/2009, at 7:32 AM, Bob Adamson wrote:

> Ok, time to clear some things up on the tech front, as there seems  
> to be some misinformation floating around about monitors, and  
> lingering questions as to what was/has been done to Cephalopod (aka  
> problematic end computer).
>
> 1. When I got to Cephalopod, all that would show up was a white  
> screen with the words 'burn in' showing. This message showed no  
> matter what computer the screen got plugged into, even when the  
> screen wasn't plugged in, and a cable problem was ruled out. The  
> screen menu wouldn't show up either. A google of the symptoms  
> returned nothing. Conclusion: the screen is broken, and Rufus can  
> confirm this. The screen sat under a table for four days before it  
> was decided by numerous people that it should be chucked out. I did  
> not personally throw it in the skip, but I agree with the decision.  
> I have since been informed that I should have left this to committee  
> to do, my apologies, I didn't know. This is the ONLY monitor I had  
> ANYTHING to do with throwing out today, and I had nothing to do with  
> the monitors that were later switched and (maybe) thrown out.
>
> 2. Once I knew I had a working monitor, though the process of  
> elimination I came to the conclusion that the Cephalopod motherboard  
> was screwed/fried, and subsequently switched it out for another that  
> was floating around the club room. Today I finished doing that by  
> putting some thermal paste under the heat sink.
>
> 3. Once the Cephalopod hardware was finally working, I booted it  
> only to find that there were additional software problems, please  
> see the email from zanchey (below) regarding the current status of  
> that.
>
> I think that's everything covered, sorry for the lengthy email but  
> the misinformation was bugging me.
> Bob
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "James Andrewartha" <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:19 PM
> To: "David Adam" <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> Cc: <tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [tech] (no subject)
>
>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, David Adam wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:
>>> > btw, "problematic end computer" is having issues loading  
>>> windows, and > won't
>>> > let anyone log on to ubuntu. As I have NO IDEA how to fix this,  
>>> could > someone
>>> > else please do it?
>>>
>>> To give some more detail: when you try and boot the Windows  
>>> partition, it
>>> reboots just before getting into graphical mode (i.e. just after  
>>> loading
>>> mup.sys). Probably needs a repair install at least, and possibly a  
>>> total
>>> reinstall.
>>>
>>> The Ubuntu problem has been fixed: it wasn't mounting /home  
>>> because Ubuntu
>>> loads NFS mounts when eth0 comes up; thanks to udev.rules  
>>> stupidity there
>>> was no eth0.
>>
>> #ucc Wednesday 29 July around 2pm:
>> <bob> oh, and the far end computer in the common room is fixed -->  
>> nuked screen and motherboard
>> <trs80> bob: can you email tech at ucc with the details?
>>
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