Monitor Repair

2010-10-12

A few days ago I found a 22” Lcd screen that was being tossed out because it didn’t work. The thought of the beauty being thrown away didn’t set well with me. So I picked it up. Before messing with it. When turning it on, it would show its gateway logo and then go blank. Which was a good sign. But none of the inputs worked. So I took it apart.…

Building first desktop from scratch

2010-03-24

Most of my childhood I have built computers. But it was always from parts laying around. A motherboard/CPU from here, case from another one etc. I finally saved up and planned out my own build from scratch. I’m posting to my blog because its a geeky milestone that every little geek must go through. A rite of passage if you will. I ran into a couple of problems along the way.…