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Having reluctantly moved from a desktop to a laptop at the office I had to actually unplug the blasted thing yesterday to take it to a meeting.
Upon returning I plug all the bits in, including the big external monitor I use, the squidgy little laptop monitor works, nothing on the external monitor, windows 10 says it is there, the power light comes on but no picture.
While fiddling in the setup a colleague switches the primary display to the external monitor only - fark nothing, both screens blank. Unplug the external screen and it all appears on the laptop, plug in the external, nothing. Ahh crap the monitor is dead and the laptop is pointing to to the external monitor only.
Now it takes up to 3 days for IT services to respond to a call and policy will not let you boot to safe mode, answer filch some other poor bastards monitor and we are good to go.
He gets back from holidays on Monday, I hope I can get a replacement monitor by then - extremely unlikely.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You need a docking station.
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Ah a sensible response - pity they are not on the approved hardware items 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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There are usually Fn-key combinations (eg Fn-F8) for switching monitor configuration (I think at the BIOS level). I've used them to recover from similar woes. RTFM!
Sad but true story. My sister in law's laptop keyboard was full of gunk, so I talked my bro through popping keycaps and vacuuming/spelunking. I assumed he had the nous to power it off first. Noooo.... Switching the primary and only display to the non-existent external monitor was just one of the things his random keyboard bashing managed to achieve. :headbang:
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Meanwhile, get yourself a docking station.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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Oh, and since clearly no one else has mentioned it, and get a docking station. 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Docking station: where they cut the tails of little lambs.
Perhaps shouldn't have said that, might end up listedlisted in the PETA files.
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If you've ever had bacon, you're likely already there.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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A colleague switched desks at work, and thought he had a dead monitor as well.
Turned out to be <gasp> the docking station monitor ports went bad!
This docking station is less than two months old....
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Now it takes up to 3 days for IT services to respond to a call and policy will not let you boot to safe mode, answer filch some other poor bastards monitor and we are good to go.
Is using someone else's hardware approved by IT policy or have you just earned yourself a brief meeting with HR and a box with all your stuff on the way out the door. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They won't find out till the next asset check and I'm pretty sure iut will be irrelevant by then. Filching a phone or using someone elses lan point on the other hand would require immediate explanation.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hi,
I got just a new router from my ISP, it is table top. I also bought a new wireless phone for my landline, again it is table top. In the flat where I live I have no space in the hall to put a table to put things on. What's more, I had figured the optimum position for phones and internet to work troughout the house, a wall mounted position.
Why can things no longer be wall mounted!
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
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I don't know about where you are, but here in Australia, things like routers and phone bases tend to have keyhole slots in the back/bottom so they can hang off screw heads on the wall. Take a look.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Hi,
Well, my router has definitely no slots at the back, what's more, it has cable entries in the back rather than on the bottom. This latter feature alone makes it difficult to mount it against a wall.
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
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I'm not at home, but the router here (Mum's house, nephew's router) has the following layout as it sits on a side table: Top, vent slots. Left and right ends, blank. (Sloping) front, a few LEDs. Rear, Two antennae, connectors (RJ45 and power). Bottom: vent slots, keyhole recesses.
My modem/router at home is a larger rectangular box. IIRC, it has a removable stand, bottom cable entry. Don't remember if it has wall mounts, but if not a patch of double sided foam tape would work.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have my stack on the dresser. Just go with it and call it your data center at parties.
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I have the electric supply breakerboard hidden behind an ornate Indian style carved wood panel set in the wall.
I put the wireless router and wireless phone in there too. No wires are visible at all. Very clean, very nice.
However my desk, and an old bookcase beside it, has monitors laptops towers FW dev boards hub rack cards etc etc etc and two power cables with a complete christmas tree of adapters hanging off it, is a total mess! 
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IF they're actually in the wall, I think the electrical code might have a problem with the install.
Probably not an immediate concern, but if you ever have a fire and the insurance company is looking for a reason to deny you a payout...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No, it is good. It is in a recess in the wall, the fuse board was upgraded last month by an electrician to one with cutouts. It is al legal and well done.
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Well,
We call that here the "Consumer Distribution Board",and, in slang: "Fuse Board" (Although it no longer contains fuses) and that will only work if you have a very small house, or if this unit is close to the Horizontal and Vertical centre of the building. Under building regulations this distribution board is meant to be locked in a cabinet resistant to 30 minutes of a British Standard Fire (whatever that sort of fire is) In my case, it is mounted under the (wooden) stairs, and hidden by two little wooden doors. Unfortunately, from there get no coverage throughout the house. On the plus side, do not need to invest in ornate carved indian style panels to hide the architectural ugliness of a fuseboard.
As for your wiring mess, I suggest you sort it with a system of sockets and some trunking.
Regards
Bram van Kampen
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In France we are less draconian. :P
Plus the carved panel acting as a door was quite cheap. In fact in France any cover over a 'fuse board' has to allow an air flow, so it works well.
As for the wiring, its not only power cable, but all sorts of other crap, it really is a bordel.
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Well, glad to hear that you're happy about the lot. Oh, You seem to reside in France! I have observed their electrical standards requirements. Spain and Portugal are similar in that respect. I have been horrified about them. All I can say is, that if you are at peace with a chance of burning in your house on an unexpected night, stay there in a house so wired. Otherwise,wire the house to essentially BS rules. Under EU rules, you cannot be prohibited from doing so.
You state that in France anything that covers a 'Fuse Board' whilst allowing airflow for cooling is admissible. I doubt that sort of regulation very much, it fails to assess the issues at hand. Please send me a copy of the relevant regulations as you refer to. French documents would be acceptable.
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
modified 2-Oct-17 19:37pm.
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I mean the wiring at my desk, not the wiring in the house. That is well done. Did much of it myself, all in proper conduits, new cables, and all on separate logical spurs.
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At least both of us can now sleep easy
You can sleep safe in your house because you know you made a proper installation, I can also sleep easy from now on, because I warned you off of the potential pittfalls.
However you convinced me of the better knowledge you have about the particular circumstance in your case.
Bram van Kampen
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I have my PC in an alcove in my bedroom that is pretty much useless for anything else, apart from maybee a set of bookcases. I had my broadband connection and router installed in the bedroom so I could run a network cable from my desktop to the router, rather than rely on a wireless connection, and to have it handy if I'm working from home in case it needs a reset.
The one thing I have noticed about most electronic equipment these days is the fact that manufacturers seem to love bright LEDs on their kit, especially blue ones! When I turn off the lights there are LEDs shining and flashing everywhere! From the standby lights on TV and PVR, router, PC, Printer, Phone chargers etc, it's lit up like Christmas.
I have taken to applying electrician's tape over any LED that is noticeable from my bed, either directly, or as a diffuse glow on a wall.
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