I awoke this morning to find my tv totally dead. It wouldn't turn on at all, neither by remote nor power button. I unplugged it and let it sit for a while and even plugged it into the wall and...nothing. I'm not sure what happened, but the tv was finished. Hey, I got it for free, so I'm amazed that it lasted this long. It's been having some trouble lately and I've kind of been waiting for it to fail so that I could replace it with an LG LCD that I had my eye on.
However, I wasn't really planning on doing that today. I guess it's good that I have the new job starting next week, but I did have to defer the payment until I can get the money coming into the coffers on a regular basis to pay for it. I didn't go crazy - I got a 32" LG LCD HDTV (the same size as the one that cratered) that runs at 1080p and 120Hz. Turns out that that combination of size and feature set are kind of odd and hard to find, but Best Buy had the one that I was looking for. Normally I probably would have welcomed the forced television blockage but since I had to trade in my TWC cable box last week for one that actually works, I've lost all my DVR season passes and didn't want to miss anything of the new season tonight.
Plus, I needed to check my Xbox one last time and it appears that my GPU is well and truly fried. I ran it without the housing and the chip is just incapable of any sort of decent display and only ran for about 5 mintues before overheating. Looks like my repair was short-lived at best, and that also means that it looks like I'm going to have to locate a replacement console for any long-term gaming. Right now I'm borrowing an Xbox from Foxshark so I can attempt to finish Batman: Arkham Asylum before I have to go back to work, but I'll have to return it on Friday and the clock is tickin'...
I'm just glad that the tv made it until I had a job before crapping out.
