Apparently, what I needed to do was bitch about it in LJ, because he just drove home from work to fix everything. "O_o"
Go figure.
I called him & had him talk me through the monitor thing (I did just what you described). It prolly sounds funny, I'm SO computer-stupid...but as long as no one messes with the settings everything works just fine. I turn on the box, click the pretty icon, & everything is ok...unless it's not.
Frankly HE is the one who needs a laptop if you ask me. I even offered to buy him one. He swears his freaking games are SOOOO powerful and NASA-space-station-like that a regular laptop just can't handle his gigantic game programs...which is why he monopolizes the home PC 90% of the time. I think if he had his own laptop just for games he could gunk it up all he wanted & leave this PC (my main work PC, since I can't get my old version of Photoshop to run on my Vista laptop) the heck alone.
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Date: 2009-04-27 05:33 pm (UTC)Go figure.
I called him & had him talk me through the monitor thing (I did just what you described). It prolly sounds funny, I'm SO computer-stupid...but as long as no one messes with the settings everything works just fine. I turn on the box, click the pretty icon, & everything is ok...unless it's not.
Frankly HE is the one who needs a laptop if you ask me. I even offered to buy him one. He swears his freaking games are SOOOO powerful and NASA-space-station-like that a regular laptop just can't handle his gigantic game programs...which is why he monopolizes the home PC 90% of the time. I think if he had his own laptop just for games he could gunk it up all he wanted & leave this PC (my main work PC, since I can't get my old version of Photoshop to run on my Vista laptop) the heck alone.
*pout*