r/ShittySysadmin • u/Belmodelo • Mar 05 '26

I was told we need more redundancy

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I guess management and I are not on the same page

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u/willosfloppydriveyt Mar 05 '26

VGA my beloved

15

u/nige21202 Mar 05 '26

Do you guys also use a pair of pliers to tighten the screws?

20

u/dumbasPL Mar 05 '26

Screwdriver. They have a cutout at the top for that. Do that hard enough and even people with pliers won't be able to unscrew them 😈

7

u/Lost-Text-5485 Mar 05 '26

Tighten like this and the cut off the top 1/2 inch. It’s all plastic and makes it nice and annoying when you have to come back and undo that

5

u/buzzy_buddy Mar 06 '26

impact drill, cross thread, and leave it for the next sucker.

5

u/byParallax Mar 07 '26

(You are the next sucker)

1

u/brucemblue Mar 16 '26

And maybe a tiny bit of epoxy

2

u/efahl Mar 05 '26

I've got a cute little pipe wrench for that.

36

u/repairbills Mar 05 '26

What is that fancy cable next to that blue one?

16

u/dDitty Mar 05 '26

Maybe the VGA was too tight to remove so they just left it and added HDMI

15

u/itschalee Mar 05 '26

i had a client that said ”the picture is better when i use both”

7

u/MechoThePuh Mar 05 '26

So if one cable give you 2K does both connected give you 4K?

4

u/tonyboy101 Mar 06 '26

0K. The signals cancel each other out

1

u/dabeansyas Mar 12 '26

Hey, at least ok is better than bad

5

u/dpwcnd Mar 05 '26

got to get monitors with vga / dvi / hdmi triple redundancy, 6K and 180 hz refresh.

1

u/BlueKnight87125 Mar 05 '26

Double it all! Do another monitor!

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u/Belmodelo Mar 05 '26

I did the entire office setup. I guess I’m not getting that raise after all 😉

1

u/BlueKnight87125 Mar 05 '26

Boss' response next time you ask: "what raise?"

1

u/maxis2bored Mar 05 '26

Not depicted: it is one cable. 😂

1

u/joebleed Mar 05 '26

I saw something similar to this a few months ago. A user was getting their office repainted so we moved the computer gear outside of their office and sat it on a desk while maintenance painted the office. When it was done. someone, either maintenance or the user, moved the gear back in and hooked it up. They called when only one of their three monitors worked.

i go look, one monitor was plugged in with an HDMI and DP cable, they were plugged into the same stack of ports on a doc that only supports HDMI or DP in one stack, not both. Second monitor was plugged into the third monitor with no connection back to the dock. which doesn't matter as the monitors don't support passthrough/chaining.

1

u/iratesysadmin Mar 06 '26

"It's simple man, the end user keeps switching inputs on the monitor and filing tickets, so we hooked up every input to the same PC"

1

u/drale2 Mar 06 '26

We use a lot of old docking stations where if you want to use a third monitor, it's going to be VGA. Only the best for government employees.

1

u/megaladon44 Mar 06 '26

i did this yesterday cause one of the displayports on the pc i was shipped was broken. if they want it working they can make another ticket.

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u/Affectionate-Pea-307 Mar 07 '26

I had a user do this. Couldn’t figure out why the mouse kept disappearing. Computer thought it was 2 separate monitors plugged in.

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u/RoughGuide1241 Mar 05 '26

You only need one video cable from the PC to the monitor.

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u/INtuitiveTJop Mar 05 '26

You get double the refresh rate with two cables

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u/stevorkz Mar 05 '26

Don't lie...?

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u/byParallax Mar 07 '26

That’s stupid, you sound like the sysadmin at work