I was looking for a place to bring my computer for repair. Although I’m a “Computer Guy” I don’t like messing with the hardware. But how to chose? There’s dozens of places in the phone book.
I decided to look for personal recommendations and ask at work. The very first guy I asked said he doesn’t take computers anywhere, he fixes them himself. Turns out he has his own side business repairing computers. I offered to buy him lunch if he’d take a look at mine.
I brought it in the next day. First thing, he removes the video card and connects a monitor to the integrated video port and powers up. Voila, just like that, video returned.
So it’s the video card right?
Just to make sure, we put the video card back to see what happened. Guess what? That worked too!
So what was the problem? We don’t know!
People at work were asking about my shuttle having seen it back in the office. I’d tell them how, just taking it apart and putting it back together fixed it, and they’d say “Yeah, they do that sometimes.”
I hate hardware.