Yeah, I'm thinking it'd have to be in the display controls. Which it isn't. Sigh, guess i'll just use the monitor for watching movies on, then (no pain then, it's only text that I can't deal with.)
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DAMMIT!
My frelling disk error problems causing startup failure have FUCKING RETURNED.
I don't know if it's a problem with the main hard drive, or a problem with the motherboard, but I cannot afford EITHER.
And CHKDSK is now only getting through about 40% of the disk before telling me that the volume appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems. This just started happenening now, after I tried to install an IRC client, and the client wouldn 't launch.
Wow, Tivo are a bit behind the times. I heard about the discontinuation of VCRs months ago. It's why you can now pick up a decent dvd-recorder for less than $AUD300 nowadays.
sean ... the fact you are also having problems with the ps/2 ports, along side the hdd problem, strongly suggests a faulty mobo.
Sean, I dismember. Did you ever try another power supply?
No, this one was brand new, bought because I'd previously been having power supply problems.
Ah, okay
Speaking of power supplies, a loud cracking noise just came from my main machine, followed by the odor of electrical smoke. That can't be good.
Um... Yeah. Unless you got some new after-market tesla coil add-on.
Whoops. That's the magic smoke. Without it, your computer can't compute well.
Yup. The smoke seems to have escaped completely (probably when I took the side panel off), because the machine is dead like a thing that is dead.