A few months ago I finally broke down and decided to get the widescreen LCD monitor that I’ve wanted for so long.
But my current graphics card couldn’t handle the native resolution of the new monitor (1680×1050). So I had to buy a new one.
A nice feature of this new card is that it will handle dual monitors.
That’s the old 19″ beast of a CRT. It weighs, oh, maybe around 300 pounds and takes up about 14 square feet of desktop space.
I got an Acer AL2216 22″ widescreen. Now I have a lot more room for a mess on my desk.
But then as I alluded to, I recently had major computer problems.
That’s not good. My motherboard fried. I ordered a motherboard, processor, RAM, and a cheap DVD burner from Newegg and had them overnighted. I needed a SATA optical drive because the new motherboard had only one IDE channel! And I had a couple of non-SATA hard drives, so I couldn’t piggyback my old IDE DVD burner on there. Here I’ve removed the old stuff and am ready to install all the new parts in my Antec Sonata case.
Notice there in the background, I’m also babysitting times 2. Talk about multi-tasking.
There’s everything in place, ready to go. So far it’s been working well.
5 Responses
August 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I also notice they’re stuck in chairs so they can’t go anywhere!!! They need to come to their aunt’s house so they can get into trouble with the rest of the kids!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Wow, looks like a lot of fun.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
As my wife tells me, as a parent we don’t “baby sit” we parent our kids :)
August 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Wow, Sweet LCD there! Just curious, have you made the switch to Vista yet? If so, how is it doing with your various audio programs?
August 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
No, I haven’t. I’d like to try it (probably in a dual-boot scenario or something similar), but I don’t want to fork over any money to do so.
Yeah Coby, I’ve heard that before. I think it was a co-worker giving me a hard time about “babysitting.” Semantics!
Jean: We’re coming. Get ready for them to be pooping all over everything. Speaking of which, I think it may have been that night that Mandy pooped all over that seat she was in.