new 'puter

I am back, well I never really left, I have been using the wife's laptop until I settled with the insurance co on my ruined computer. Some of you maybe heard the tragic story of my computers demise, if not, have a drink and I will try the condensed version.

Early last winter I noticed the garden hose was still attached to the outside faucet. I removed it and forgot about it. Well, it seems the damage was done as the pipe from the valve to the wall froze and split. This summer, mama decided to water her plants, and my office is right below the broken water line, so I got my computer and monitors washed. It seems computers don't take to well to water and everything died a horrible death. The good news is I have replacement insurance so I got me a new 'puter! This Windows Vista kinda scared me at first, but it is working fine, and not really that much different from XP. The only problem I have is I was, and still want to run two monitors. Vista will run multiple monitors, with a different video card, but I have not been able to get it to work on this 'puter. My old XP unit I just dropped in another vid card, plugged in the monitor and a couple settings it was running. New vid card in this machine and it will not boot. I may drop it back into the box and see if the Geeks at Best Buy can finger it out. Short of that, maybe a different video/graphics card.

PoorUB
'05 Ultra

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