I get pissed off when chains of events conspire against me..... case in question......
A friend gave me a computer. I want to plug the computer into my television so I can surf the internet, in large screen mode.... from the comfort of my sofa. Not a difficult request really.
I installed Windows XP on the computer - a series of problems meant that this process in itself took a whole day!! The computer has been working, but it has hiccoughed a couple of times, but I thought I had ironed these problems out.
I check my TV and it doesn't have a VGA connector on it to connect a PC.... groans..... the PC doesn't have an HDMI connector on it to connect it to the TV..... double groans...... there's got to be a way to do this..... I can't find the instruction book for the television.... I can't find the model number of the television to find an instruction manual for the television on the internet......
Reluctantly I lift the entire TV cabinet which holds (TV; Freeview HDR; Nintendo Wii; PS3; DVD Player; Wireless router; DJ hero controller; All the associated plugs, wires and bits and pieces that go with it) - I drag the unit out just far enough that all the cables and plugs get tangled up and just far enough that I can get a camera down the back to take some photographs......
I sift through a series of terrible photographs that I've blindly taken down the back of the TV and find one that when I zoom in close enough, I can read the model number of the television......
I look up the television on the internet and find an instruction booklet for the correct model.... it requires some software to be installed to read it though and I give up.....
I am just emailing my friend to see what he thinks..... when I remember I had bought a VGA to RGB H/V cable for my laptop, some time ago, and it's right here in the cupboard in front of me.... I dig it out. It's the FIRST thing to go right today!!
I run all the cables through the right holes in the cabinet, thread this one here, pull that one through there - it's turning from a tidy, cable managed nirvana into the cable knitting fairy's hideout!! Everything's hanging out.... bits here, bits there..... but everything's plugged in..... I switch it on......
Nothing.... blank screen......
I unplug everything, plug it all back in..... and..... a different shade of nothing..... a BLACK screen.......
I switch off and on again like a seasoned IT professional and......
beeeep..... beeeep....... beeeeeeep........ a motherboard sounds its last dying breaths........
I should...
a) go back to bed.
b) smash something.
c) put everything back the way it was before i started pissing about with it.
d) blame it on the dog.
e) all of the above)
delete as applicable!
I consult my download schedule and notice "Day of the Jackal" has just about arrived...... looks like that's the plan then.
