Posts Tagged “dvi”

Apparently I’m not the only one with a blown ATI X1900. It might be because I never cleaned out the dust build up. My card was worse than the one shown at xlr8yourmac (see link). This week my monitors started turning off after a few minutes of use. Upon inspection we found a small burn mark on the card. So we ordered a replacement, an ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac and PC Edition which sounds like a good card.

Inside the package is the card, an install disc and the note shown above that says “Install the Mac software before the hardware.” How is it possible to install the software before the hardware when my current card is blown? Read… »

Back when I first started this blog I had the theme of “out with the old and in with the new” and it started with the upgrade of my old G5 to a new Intel 8-core PowerMac. In that early post I mentioned the Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP because it has loads of inputs including the new DisplayPort connector Apple has sort-of recently embraced. I believe that the writing is on the wall that DVI will eventually be on the outs and any monitor I invest in these days needs be ‘future proof.’ So during the black days after Thanksgiving I ordered one and it arrived today!

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This weekend we had the carpets cleaned which required that we picked up everything off the floors.  In several rooms this meant stacking items on top of a bed or a couch.  When the guys were finished, seeing all that fresh empty real estate was inspiring. (I like open spaces in a house.) So we decided to take on to the task of trying to clean things up enough to keep the floors clear of clutter.  In my home office the job was to clean my desk of several years of paper and junk and to move out the G5 mac to make room for my new 8-core mac pro.

The desert is dusty

Let me interject that the task was too daunting for me to do alone and that my wife helped a great deal with organization. But the real clean up was my responsibility.  I wish I had taken a picture before starting the project, but here it is after almost everything was removed from the table.

Skipping ahead ahead a few hours, past the boring cleaning process and way past the awful disgustingness I found underneath my amplifier, I finally had my 8-core placed up on the sterilized Ikea desk ready to plug in to my monitor, mouse and keyboard.  But I quickly realized that Apple had also done some house cleaning. Read… »