Day 197 - Oh Drat and Bother! - Part 2

Well, the Function +F5 thing didn't work sadly. Boo. The whole thing is very strange. It actually loads the splash page onto the second monitor but it never goes past that. And the other thing I noticed is that, on the laptop monitor itself, it will load the splash page and then go black. Which I find odd. If the monitor is broken, I would have thought it wouldn't show anything at all. I don't know.

I'm still hoping to delay the buying of a new laptop until at least the end of the year. Right now I'm using my boss' laptop since it's just sitting there doing nothing anyway. And I also have an older laptop at my mom's place. I think anyway. Knowing my mom, she's probably thrown it out or something. I'll have to get over there and see what's what. I think it just needs a power cord or something. I also have an old laptop here but right now it's useless as it keeps giving either an unmountable boot volume error or then it does some weird thing where it goes disk0 rdisk0 partion1 and a bunch of file names. If I leave it long enough like that, the monitor goes dark but it seems like the laptop is still on. Something else to figure out. If I'm very lucky, I'll be able to find the restore disks it came with, though I don't know if that would solve this particular problem.