So the other week, I get a call from a friend who was having some “computer issues”, I’ll refer to him as “Stubborn PC User”, I of course offer to help. The symptoms were as follows:

My Suggestion to him was go with a mac - but sigh - those windows users who prefer to rebuild their PC’s for much less than buying a mac - are so stubborn!

So we swap out the graphics card - the obvious right? Wrong! This didn’t fix it. Apparently, the graphics card was not the issue, we decided to check the ram - but Stubborn PC User decides he wants to rebuild his entire computer and go faster. Alright I said, let’s do it.

$850 later, new motherboard - ASUS M2N-32, AMD 5600 Dual Core CPU, 4 Gigs of Ram DDR400, GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card and a brand new licensed Windows XP Pro. The problem still exists! Damnit I say!! There could only be one thing left - the Monitor - a Gateway HDMI Monitor ARGH!

We get past it and I recommend he buy a HDMI TV and use it to run both PC and TV in his room. Great Idea, so off we go to Frys to look at options. The TV Option works best, price wise and so he goes home dreaming of building this amazing PC.

The next morning he pulls his PC out to the living room and hooks it up to his current 65″ HDMI TV and sends me the following photo:

Moral of the Story:
Windows Users are Horn Dogs.