Monthly Archives: December 2019
Loose Ends . . .
A number of our readers have been asking what I’m planning on doing about my rig’s pesky oil leak problem. Well, this morning I ordered another gasket for the oil adapter head.
My thought is this. After I replaced the gasket last time, I didn’t have a leak, for over 100 miles, much further than any of my other supposed fixes have worked.
So that must have something to do with the leak. So maybe the repair failed. In fact my son Chris thought I might have put too much sealer on the gasket.
So I’m going to once again pull the oil filter and the oil filter adapter head. Then, after I clean all the old sealer off, I’ll put everything back together with a new gasket and a new oil filter. Then we’ll do a full-blown road test, while towing this time. Since when we’re towing is the only time it leaks.
Then we’ll see, I’ll guess.
I got several blog comments about my problem getting my PC hooked up to our new Samsung TV.
First some basics.
The new TV has 3 HDMI inputs.
HDMI 1 is where our DirecTV DVR plugs in, and it works fine.
HDMI 2 is where I want to plug in the HDMI feed from my desktop computer.
HDMI 3 is presently not used.
Our old TV only had 2 HDMI inputs, and it worked fine hooked up like this for 4 years.
I’ve plugged in the DVR to each of the 3 inputs and they all work fine.
There is no need to switch video outputs like you have to on a laptop. The HDMI video output is always on, mirroring the DVI output that I use to connect to my computer monitor.
When it is working correctly, all I have to do to see my computer screen on the TV is just to select HDMI 2 on the TV remote, and it’s there. No fuss, no muss.
I know the computer HDMI is working since I can plug it into the HDMI input on my computer monitor and it works fine.
I have swapped the known-working HDMI cable from the DVR with the PC HDMI cable and the DVR works, so I know the PC works. And I’ve used the DVR cable on the PC side and it doesn’t work.
So everything points to a problem with the TV liking the video from the PC. It does identify the video signal as coming from a PC and labels it as coming from a PC.
It just won’t show it.
So tomorrow I’m going to hook up one of my laptops to the TV and see what happens.
Stay tuned.
Thought For The Day:
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Boxing Day Notes . . .
After a quiet post-Christmas (Boxing Day) morning I spent some time trying to figure out why our new Samsung TV won’t see my computer, since my old Samsung TV had no problems with it.
It has 3 HDMI ports and I can put my DirecTV DVR to any of the 3 ports and the TV recognizes the DVR and shows the video. So I know the ports are good.
But though the TV recognizes the PC as a PC on any of the 3 ports, it only shows a blank screen. I’ve swapped the cables around with no luck either.
The cable that works fine on the DVR still doesn’t work on the PC, and the HDMI cable that doesn’t work on the PC works fine on the DVR.
So I thought maybe there was a problem with the screen resolution I’m using on the PC. But, according to the 177 page for the TV, (Yes, a 177 page manual!) the 1920 x 1080 60Hz should be acceptable to the TV.
So I got on Samsung Support Chat and told them my problem. But as usually happens they had to read from their script, completely ignoring what I had already done. I don’t think they even read it.
But I finally ran out of time before we left for lunch, so I’ll try again later.
While we’re on the subject of Samsung, I’m thinking maybe it’s about time to think about upgrading my phone since I usually try to upgrade every 3 new models.
I got a Samsung S5 in 2014 while we were in Elkhart with Nick and Terry, and then upgraded to an S8+ when we were in Las Vegas in 2017. And now the S11 is coming out next February.
It seems to take at least 3 iterations before there’s enough improvements to make it worthwhile to spend the money to upgrade to a new phone. But this one has a lot of great new stuff.
Like:
- 5G Support
- A 108 megapixel camera
- A Ultra Wide Angle Lens
- A Telephoto Lens with 5X Optical Zoom
- A 120Hz AMOLED Screen
- And a Whopping Big 5000mAh Battery!
Sounds like it will be a worthy upgrade.
And Jan’s happy because she’ll get my hand-me-down S8+.
Thought For The Day:
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Libra and we’re skeptical.
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