A friend of mine got a new computer and asked me to help her set it up and copy her data over. No problem.
I get over there and my wife helps her with her dogs (she's one of my wife's client's too - plus she co-owns Artemis with us).
I disconnect the old computer and get the new computer mostly connected then I noticed an issue - the monitor is DVI only and the computer has SVGA. Problem but not a biggie - go out and grab and adapter (F-DVI to M-SVGA) and she's all set.
I run over to Best Buy (the only store reasonably close that would sell it). I ask the guy for the adapter (again, F-DVI to M-SVGA) and he quickly hands me an adapter. Of course, he hands me a M-DVI to F-SVGA (hooking a SVGA monitor to a DVI port on a PC) and I tell him I need it the other way around. So, he grabs one of the geek squad guys.
He proceeds to tell me that the technologies are incompatible and that the adapter does not exist. Of course, I told him that my monitor is DVI and the old PC did not have that so I had an adapter and it DID work. Of course, he proceeded to tell me that I was wrong and I had a SVGA monitor and a DVI card on my PC.
I guess his psychic powers are a little on the fritz - not only does he claim that he knows more about my own computer than I do, he still had it wrong.
I just shook my head and thanked him for his time.
I head back empty handed and hook up the old computer (It's not a bad system - some just messed up the drive partitioning - a 15GB primary and a 145Gb secondary - WTF?). I cleaned out a ton of temp files, installed CleanCache 3.0 to clean out her PC each time she shuts it down and told her about SpyBot and Ad-Aware, I didn't have time to install them. I told her that the adapter DOES exist and that I would try to find one for her. Lo and behold:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
I told her I would still help her get the new system connected but now she's debating between a new monitor or the adapter. She has a 15" flat panel but saw a 24" widescreen at Costo for $160. Not a bad price.
But - I'm still concerned that people actually listen to these people (like the geek squad guy I spoke to) and believe them??
I get over there and my wife helps her with her dogs (she's one of my wife's client's too - plus she co-owns Artemis with us).
I disconnect the old computer and get the new computer mostly connected then I noticed an issue - the monitor is DVI only and the computer has SVGA. Problem but not a biggie - go out and grab and adapter (F-DVI to M-SVGA) and she's all set.
I run over to Best Buy (the only store reasonably close that would sell it). I ask the guy for the adapter (again, F-DVI to M-SVGA) and he quickly hands me an adapter. Of course, he hands me a M-DVI to F-SVGA (hooking a SVGA monitor to a DVI port on a PC) and I tell him I need it the other way around. So, he grabs one of the geek squad guys.
He proceeds to tell me that the technologies are incompatible and that the adapter does not exist. Of course, I told him that my monitor is DVI and the old PC did not have that so I had an adapter and it DID work. Of course, he proceeded to tell me that I was wrong and I had a SVGA monitor and a DVI card on my PC.
I guess his psychic powers are a little on the fritz - not only does he claim that he knows more about my own computer than I do, he still had it wrong.
I just shook my head and thanked him for his time.
I head back empty handed and hook up the old computer (It's not a bad system - some just messed up the drive partitioning - a 15GB primary and a 145Gb secondary - WTF?). I cleaned out a ton of temp files, installed CleanCache 3.0 to clean out her PC each time she shuts it down and told her about SpyBot and Ad-Aware, I didn't have time to install them. I told her that the adapter DOES exist and that I would try to find one for her. Lo and behold:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
I told her I would still help her get the new system connected but now she's debating between a new monitor or the adapter. She has a 15" flat panel but saw a 24" widescreen at Costo for $160. Not a bad price.
But - I'm still concerned that people actually listen to these people (like the geek squad guy I spoke to) and believe them??
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