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TIFU by not realizing monitors needed a power cable

Hi everyone. So basically i got tired of craning my head down to look at my laptop so I thought getting a monitor would be a neat decision to elevate my academic life.

My mother had two Samsung monitors which according to her stopped working because the adapter gave out. She generously offered them to me to fix up.

I first tried using the adapter, and the image didn’t transfer like she said. From there i ordered a 50 dollar adapter to see if the monitor was also an issue. This was two weeks ago.

An hour ago I tried the new adapter and nothing happened. Defeated, I looked to Reddit for answers and in an image post I noticed the monitor had two cables attached. I couldn’t be…

I went digging for a cable that matched the one in the image I saw. Plugged it in. Guess what the hell happened.

It turned on, a beautiful aquamarine light is now blinking at the bottom of the monitor where it wasn’t before. The endless black ocean that was once the screen is now replaced with a giant image of Kirby (as that is my screensaver)

For posterity I tried the old adapter and that also works just fine. There goes 50 bucks if I forget to return it

My mother is floored as she bought an iMac just because those monitors stopped working on her.

So yeah who knew monitors also needed a power cable? And that power just to the laptop was insufficient? (Probably everybody else but me)

TL;DR: extended a problem to two weeks that could have been solved in minutes if I realized monitors also needed power too

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