I would say let them do what they want. I'd probably bring them up and put them in front of a full sun window, and give them drinks when they are thirsty. I have three out in my garage that have gone dormant, three in the yard that are dormant, and three in the house, two of which that are still putting out big beautiful leaves, and the other a cutting that is still struggling to root. When your plants are ready for sleep they will let you know, and then you can tuck them in their beds (basement) for their long winters nap. That's my two cents worth. p.s. 14 degrees! Sheeeesh! I'll stay down here in Florida. Lauri

What kind of work did the computer shop do for you? By accident, because of my lack of knowledge, I did a Destructive Recovery when I was stuck on a black screen with white lettering I couldn't get out of. It brought me back to day one with problems that were fixed via Gateway phone support which is no longer. One being not able to do windows updates and a shut down time problem. They were supposed to see if they could fix that and do all updates for windows and the drivers. The computer (Win XPPRO) was brought in to find the cause of a sound that just started happening like a whirring speed up then down then steady starting after the computer is on for 7 minutes. They said the heat sync fan/fans are OK and unplugged my floppy drive thinking it was that when the floppy had been known to make a short noise when I first used it when I bought the computer back in 2004 but hadn't since. A noise like it may have been trying to read? That was not the noise I meant. Also is it possible the tech installed a new video card and disabled the onboard video in the BIOS? In this case you should see a different video connection lower down the rear of the tower which you would need to connect to. Is that the socket I plug my monitor into as I noticed I could not push it in all the way to hide the silver part I thought did before? Then screw each side tight. Is that it? If so, I bet they did but WHY? Before I brought it in, everything worked fine except because of the Recovery two problems came back that had been corrected by Gateway I wanted fixed again and I was concerned about a noise that recently appeared, me thinking it was my HD or the sync fan.

Thanks mikie. That did the trick! Saved again. JohnW

I know some LCD monitors have replaceable backlights; not sure if your Princeton is among them. I would check with Princeton or places that sell electronics parts. I suspect that, with the continually falling prices of new LCD monitors and because most people would have to pay for any parts replacement, the unit is BER. However, at this point you risk little (not even the old-fashioned jolt you could get from CRTs), so I would take it apart methodically, look for anything that failed a smoke test, and maybe you'll get lucky and find it's a cheap, generic part. Otherwise, I'd go monitor shopping.