AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGHH!
Feb. 28th, 2011 03:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenThis is getting annoying yet again.
So far I've taken the cover just back of my laptop's keyboard off and jiggled the video cable, poked the cable, removed it and put it back in again, and finally pulled some of the tape off the cable and poked the wires some more, and each time have got a little more life out of the slowly-dying cable.
However, I don't suppose this could last forever.
Eventually I'm going to have to replace the cable or the whole laptop, and I'm not sure which I'd rather do.
Technically, I don't have money for either option right now (when does anybody have the money to replace one of their major computer systems?) so I have to deal with the cable as best I can.
If it was my only computer, I'd have thrown it out the window long before now, so I'm lucky in that respect.
I could extend the laptop's life a bit longer at the expense of portability by hooking it up to my current monitor, but that would mean I'd be tied down to my desk, though it would solve my display problem.
Ugh, looks like I really need to find a better job than a paper route so I can replace the ailing tech in my life...
So far I've taken the cover just back of my laptop's keyboard off and jiggled the video cable, poked the cable, removed it and put it back in again, and finally pulled some of the tape off the cable and poked the wires some more, and each time have got a little more life out of the slowly-dying cable.
However, I don't suppose this could last forever.
Eventually I'm going to have to replace the cable or the whole laptop, and I'm not sure which I'd rather do.
Technically, I don't have money for either option right now (when does anybody have the money to replace one of their major computer systems?) so I have to deal with the cable as best I can.
If it was my only computer, I'd have thrown it out the window long before now, so I'm lucky in that respect.
I could extend the laptop's life a bit longer at the expense of portability by hooking it up to my current monitor, but that would mean I'd be tied down to my desk, though it would solve my display problem.
Ugh, looks like I really need to find a better job than a paper route so I can replace the ailing tech in my life...
