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 Posted: Thu, 15th Mar 2012 19:52 Post subject: Son of a bitch! Blew $330 for no fuck reason! |
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I've had a Hanns-G 27.5" monitor for roughly 3 years. About 6 months back it started taking a while for it to display an image via HDMI. The length of time it took varied. Sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes 10 minutes. It would also occasionally blink on and off during gaming. I figured that it couldn't be the cable, if it was it would never display an image at all, right?
Well, a few days ago I decided I'd had enough of the shenanigans and ordered this monitor.
It comes in today, I hook it up using the new included HDMI cable. Works beautifully.
I decided to use the old HDMI cable that was hooking up my PC to hook up my PS3 instead. Funnily enough, the monitor refused to display the HDMI 2 input for my PS3.
Long story short, turns out the cable was the fucking culprit this whole time, and I blew $330 on a downgraded monitor (16:9 and max 1920x1080 instead of my OLD 16:10 max 1920x1200), for no fucking reason.
So angry right now. And I'm too lazy to return the fucking thing (plus i'd get screwed on shipping and a 15% restock fee).  
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Mar 2012 20:30 Post subject: |
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 You didn't test it with another cable?!
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Mar 2012 22:21 Post subject: |
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| tonizito wrote: | | You didn't test it with another cable?! |
No I didn't.
VGA cables, when bad, go blurry/smeared image or display no image at all.
HDMI is digital, so 1's , 0's , on/off.
I "thought" (there was my mistake right there, trying to use logic to solve a problem  ), that if an HDMI cable were bad it would display no image at all.
The fact that the old monitor EVENTUALLY displayed an image (after a random delay of 10 secs - 10 minutes) to me, meant the cable couldn't be bad.
Shows what I know.
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Mar 2012 22:26 Post subject: |
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| Immunity wrote: | | tonizito wrote: | | You didn't test it with another cable?! |
No I didn't.
VGA cables, when bad, go blurry/smeared image or display no image at all.
HDMI is digital, so 1's , 0's , on/off. |
No excuses.  
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 09:49 Post subject: Re: Son of a bitch! Blew $330 for no fuck reason! |
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| Immunity wrote: |
Long story short, turns out the cable was the fucking culprit this whole time, and I blew $330 on a downgraded monitor (16:9 and max 1920x1080 instead of my OLD 16:10 max 1920x1200), for no fucking reason.
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 11:40 Post subject: |
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16:10 sux anyways
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 11:43 Post subject: |
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you've got more money than sense, mate.
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| kazemaky wrote: | | 16:10 sux anyways |
its better than 8:5 though. |
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Mar 2012 10:07 Post subject: |
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If you're too lazy to return it then dont complain that you're down £330
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| Posted: Tue, 20th Mar 2012 12:56 Post subject: |
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Uh, warranty?
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Sin317
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i always had good experience with ebay (or rather its equivalent here in switzerland, "ricardo", with selling my old computer parts. Everytime upgrade my pc (which i usually do gradually), i sell the replaced stuff on there and usually get at least 50% of the original value back hehe. Not kidding.
its worth it.
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