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So, like 3 or 4 months ago Eddie’s main monitor started acting weird.  It had this strange green haze on the screen.  We turned it off, turned it back on, unplugged, different cables…we tried everything and it just never was right again.

Our friend John was going to Thailand for a few months, so Eddie asked if he could borrow John’s 2 24″ monitors until we could buy some new ones.  John said yes, and Eddie used them until he got 2 24″ Samsungs from the Full Tilt store.  The Gateway stayed in the closet.

Now that we’re getting ready to move, we decided to see if it could be fixed or whatever.

We hauled it out of the closet, plopped it on my desk and hooked it up. Green haze everywhere.

Eddie contacted Gateway, who’s response basically was, “It’s not under warranty.  Go fuck yourself.”

Eddie called around to a few computer repair shops and found one that said they could fix it.  $200 and it would be like a new monitor.  Seeing as the thing cost over $1,000 to begin with, $200 sounded pretty good.

We take it yesterday.  This afternoon the place calls:

“Sir, we have good news for you!”

“What?”

“There is nothing wrong with your monitor.”

Blink.

Blink, blink.

“Yes, there is.  I guarantee you there is.”

“Well, we’ve had it on for 7 hours and we see no green haze.  So we were thinking maybe it’s the cable you were using, so go ahead and bring that in and we’ll test it.”

Now, we told them yesterday that the green haze was over multiple inputs, so to me that would rule out the connection, but whatever.  Eddie takes the cable and goes to the repair shop.  He views for himself that there is NOTHING WRONG AT ALL.

He brings it back home, after making a deal with the manager of the shop that if he gets it home and there’s green haze, we’ll video it and they can make a “house call” and see it for themselves.  Free of charge.

It’s been home and on Eddie’s desk for 5 hours.  No green haze.

I am so confused.

edit:  Well, now it’s back.  Fuck.