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Re: DVI versus SVGA?

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On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:39:48 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:

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I intend tp reply to your post later, but now I want to catch you and
everyone up on the problem with the computer video. 

I was looking at the video card you picked out, and some others in the
20 to 30 dollar range, and thought I'd look at MicroCenter's webpage.
They have a store in Baltimore.  I always had the feeling that
Comp-USA and the other one were expensive, but somehow MicroCenter
gives the imprression that it's not 

So I looked for a card and they had nothing that was low-profile,
either on the web or in the store here (the webpage can do both).

So I looked for a VGA-VGA cable, (and I'd use the on-board VGA
circuit) and they had one that was $9.99, marked down to 0.99, marked
down to $0.01.     That seemed like a good price.    When I tried to
order it online, it kept changing the price to zero and then the
Checkout button never appeared, but I tried it from the beginning and
got 1 cent, and I checked out, and it even gave me the option of not
paying, and they would hold it at the store for about 3 days (after
which it would taken away from me), and I could pay when I picked it
up.   So I got it that night, and the in-store price was zero. 

Then the hamfest was Sunday morning, and I was sure they wouldn't have
the card, given that Microcenter didn't have it, even in their
warehouse.  

Well, one guy had the whole computer that my friend has, 2 of them,
and the next size larger too, 2 or 3 of them.   And he had a box of
videocards, complete with splitter and driver CD.   For $13.  But
those were the ones that fit the bigger computer. He said he had the
ones for the smaller computer at home, and he'd mail one for $15.  I'm
pretty sure this is the very model that Dell used in the first place,
Quite a coincidence, I think. 

So I go her house and put in the VGA cable and  it doesn't work of
course so I take out the non-functioning cable, and now the VGA works,
but only as "Default Monitor".   The image is stretched out
hosizontally, and when I go to highter resolutions, it makes the print
too small. 

So I try to dl the Dell drivers, and they seem to be installed
already. Then I reaize that it must be the Samsung drivers that I
need, but eventually figure out that they've been dl'd already too,
I try to reinstall them but neither Dell nor SAmsung will install.
And I get a message that I can't install the monitor software until I
do the graphics card, (or vice versa) and separately I get a message I
cann't install the graphics card. 

I want to just lieave it like it is, which isn't bad imo, and order
the card from the guy and figure we'd get it Wednesday or Thursday,
but she says it's "distracting" the way it is.   So I put it back the
way it is.  For me the monitor has already started blinking off, but
she hasn't seen that yet.    Maybe just touching it fixed it.  That's
how I often fix things.  

Her father died last week and the funeral was Monday, so it was no
time to give her a hard time.   Eventually the monitor will be bad for
her again, probably, and 

then we'll either get the original video card (used I guess for 4 to 6
years)  or the one you suiggested, new, or one of the two other ones. 

If you were a cheapskate, which one would you buy, the used for 15 or
one of the others for 20 to 30???
I think the used cards were removed from the same make and model
computer that she has -- After all, he had two of them for sale -- and
that seems like a big reason to pick them. .   



Even though she just 2 weeks ago bought a 2012 car for 25 or 30K or
more, I can see her wanting the 15 dollar one.  OTOH, she's
distrustful of used.  (Cars and furniture were the only things she
bought used.  She had bought her last 3 cars used, so it was quite a
change to buy a 2012.



I can see her wanting the one for 15

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DVI versus SVGA? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-07-20 07:26 -0400
  Re: DVI versus SVGA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-07-20 08:24 -0400
    Re: DVI versus SVGA? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-07-20 17:19 -0400
      Re: DVI versus SVGA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-07-20 18:39 -0400
        Re: DVI versus SVGA? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-07-22 08:12 -0700
        Re: DVI versus SVGA? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-07-24 00:35 -0400
          Re: DVI versus SVGA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-07-24 03:06 -0400
    Re: DVI versus SVGA? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-07-20 17:20 -0400
      Re: DVI versus SVGA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-07-20 17:34 -0400
  Re: DVI versus SVGA? Tecknomage <tecknode@NOSPAM.invalid> - 2013-07-22 08:18 -0700

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