Video card possessed?

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Um so this girl freely admits that she is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to computers. So, this girl's computer is being funny. When posting on some sites, it looks like the ribbon on her typer thingy is running out of ink. Well, this girl does not believe there is such a ribbon in her computer, at least she has never found one. Where would they put such a thing?

So are any of you other girls seeing such a daemon in your computer? This girl is wondering if her video card is sick of her, or if she has somehow corrupted video files? Are there such things? Perhaps simply needs a good seeing to or to be kept from using computers?

OHum also, when clicking on the little life links on web pages at some URLs, one must search around for the real sweet spot because it is not where it should be.

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unm

It might be your monitor. At least that's what it sounds like to me from what you described. But it is also difficult to decipher what you are talking about as well. Have you tried other monitors. Also, it could be the cable from computer to monitor. On the computer I just finished using, if you didn't have the cable a certain way, things would go funky. Ever see an all blue screen, cool for a second, then annoying.

Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)

Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life

Hellishly HOT!

So for this Oregon girl who is constantly complaining to Heavenly Father about the rain, the last 30 days have been at first entirely glorious, but when the days started getting the high 90's or even higher, with Ohio like humidity, it lost its charm after a few days. This girl's room (in the attic) has routinely been over 110 Degrees until around 3:00 AM. So, The other day, i felt as if the smoke was leaking from one of my computer parts and shut it down and left to go lay in the sprinkler.

This girl could never issolate the source of the smell of death, but it seemed as if it could be emanating from the monitor, or the Video card, or sigh, the power supply. Drat!

In as much as she is allowed to think once in a while, she asserts that certain sites have this issue. about.com, and youtube.com are two, but BCTS does not exhibit such behaviour.

There is this hot guy at church that she knows who may be able to look at it. Sadly he is married and it is unlikely she will allow a sister wife. :(For now, it willl remain an anomally. :)

you let the smoke out.

Any ham radio junkie knows that his equipment runs on smoke. Bad things happen though when you let the smoke out of an electronic device. Most often they quit running sometimes they just not work as they should.

Paula

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

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Chapterhouse: Dune

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Solid state devices come with less smoke, so you can miss the smaller amount of smoke that comes out. You see, back in the good ol' days, devices had lots of storage space for smoke. Look at the size of those glass tubes, for example. Lots of room for smoke in those! And all the parts were bigger, and they had special parts, called capacitors who's primary job was to hold smoke! One of those old tabletop radios could make enough smoke to set your smoke alarms off, which is why nobody had smoke alarms in their houses in those days. But now, with all those tiny ICs (Which stands for Internal Combustion, because they let the smoke out inside the device.) there is so little smoke that escapes to the outside that most people just don't notice.

And you will note they don't say a thing about that on the packaging. When was the last time you saw an Apple computer box that said, "Now with 80% less smoke!"? No, they try and hide it, because they know somebody is going to want a refund! "Hey! I'm not getting as much smoke for my dollar as I used to!" They try and cover it up with doubletalk about labor costs and hikes in material costs and increased taxes, and somehow they never get around to explaining about the smoke. It's those 1 percenters again! They're keeping all that extra smoke for themselves! They have special offshore accounts where that smoke is kept, and they never, ever report that smoke on their income taxes. That's the real reason Romney won't release all those tax returns, he doesn't want anybody to figure out he hasn't be reporting his smoke on a yearly basis. Put that together with all the mirror purchases he claims as "business expenses" . . . well, you're all smart people, I'm sure you can put it together.


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I think it's your browser.

I just noticed a similar behavior when I was typing in the address of a webpage I wanted to visit. I'm running Microsoft Internet Explorer under Windows 7. I can see my desktop wallpaper through the top of the browser window, and I think a recent update may have changed the transparency setting in the address bar. I just had a thing where the stuff I'd typed kind of blended into the background, and it resembled the situation you describe.