Some Frustration along the way

The computer system in my studio has developed over time. Computers have come and gone, devices have been added and taken away or died, interfaces changed, and monitors of different sizes swapped in and out. The use of an older Bravia LCD TV wall mounted was a game changer at the time. Allowing me to redesign my work table to suit both sitting-down art-making, and/or standing at my easel (now my favourite way to work). However, this ad hoc approach meant I had a plethora of cables, power, video, audio and lots of tangled USB cables. Some actually go nowhere and are no longer used. It was a mess.

As it was playing up the old Bravia TV had apparently modified the graphic card drivers or reset something deep in the operating system. So on first attempts, I couldn’t get the repurposed TV replacement to work at all. A fair bit of time was wasted not knowing what was wrong, Attaching the computer to other monitors showed that the screen only worked when connected to the older style VGA cable but not to HDMI. Well very inconsistently on HDMI. So I dug out a very old flat-screen monitor I hadn't used for years. This gave me two screens and let me waste a lot of time checking the graphics card setting, updating drivers, swapping cables and also fiddling with the settings on the TV. Eventually, I got it going reliably.

Now to simplify that wiring….