Computer woes

[astra_nomer]

My work computer is an Intel MacBook. I chose a laptop because I go back and forth a lot between my two offices and work a bunch at home, too. And I chose a Mac for religious reasons.

I purchased a nice, big flat-screen monitor for my office a the University with my research funds, and was working away happily at it yesterday, until I went to give my talk. But then, it refused to talk to the projector at all. No matter how many times I asked it to "detect displays" it wouldn't do anything.

Today, I am at my Goverment Lab office, and I find that my computer won't talk to the monitor here, either. This is the first time I've ever had a problem connecting any Mac laptop to a display.

What to do?!? Suggestions and expressions of sympathy are equally welcome. Attempts at proselytizing are not.


EDIT: Hm, looks like rebooting seems to have done the trick. I'm still annoyed that I had to reboot, though. *grump*

Comments

[narya.livejournal.com]

*expression of sympathy*

I don't know anything about Macs. I had a similar problem with my windows laptop and it turned out that it worked much more reliably if I reset the display resolution to the default, but I doubt that has any relevance in the mac world...

Rebooting...

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

That's quite a common problem among mac users. You go so long without rebooting the machine, that it stops occurring to you as a possible solution to problems.

Re: Rebooting...

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! It's so true.