So I found an extra present inside my mail box, to today I headed to the store to get the HP DV6-2088DX that was on clearance. This was a total steal. This laptop was a Black Friday special at Best Buy back during Thanksgiving. Windows 7 Home Premium 500GB HDD 8GB DDR2 RAM 16′ Screen [...]

My computer is back up and running and I renamed the computer to one of my favorite secondary cartoon characters of the TV series ‘The Batman’: Detective Shades.

Last night folks, I went ahead and updated my desktop system to include my parts from the Intel Big Deal and the DDR3 RAM I had ordered just a few days after receiving the Big Deal (original post). This was not a very hard install for me, but it did take a few “extra” hours [...]

I am going duel monitor setup with two 17″ screens to compensate for the loss of my 24″. At least I can program, web design, and play games again.

So.. if you remember back on the 19th of this month, I reported that my graphics card had died. In this case, my own diagnostics of my computer was wrong. After several “test cases” using different computers hooked up to my monitor and also changing out the video card (with a temporary one) my monitor [...]