Ass-Hat Fecal Mongers at NewEgg and Samsung, et al

[squirell nutkin]

I bought a new monitor from NewEgg and I set it up. First off, when I put in the disk that came with it, nothing happened after I selected my language prefs (Engrish, not Korean) except for it launching Firefox with an empty browser.

Trying it w/ IE resulted in the helpful message that I needed to insert my original XP system disk so it could install the Korean language pack. I had almost forgotten that I had moved to Korea last month!

Whatever, I soldiered on. When it was all hooked up everything was great in an anamorphic kind of way. When I went to set my screen resolution to this new 16:9 screen I saw my graphics card's driver wasn't down with that shit, so I had to download the latest driver. Fair enough.

Installed the driver update and set the resolution, things were looking better but the fonts were kind of disappearing and had a ghostly aura around them. Then they just turned into nice easy to see squares. Sort of like a screen full of, well full of little squares where letters should be.

Imagine doing a system restore when all you can see is:
00000000
0000000000000
000000
0000000000000000
000000000
000000000
but square. Let's see, I think "Next>" is around here somewhere...

After a number of very unhelpful contradicting phone calls to Samsung TEch Support (whose ultimate piece of troubleshooting advice was for me to take my monitor to a friend's house and see if it worked there) I emailed Nvidia and discovered their story is "WE just make the chips, we don't make the graphics cards, you'll need to take it up with whoever made your graphics cards" So the Nvidia GeForce 7300LE graphics card has nothing to do with you, I mean besides having your name all over it and links on your site to purchase it. I see.

Samsung then told me I needed to install an new driver for my monitor, Then they told me it was a plug and play and it didn't need a new driver, then they told me to follow a link to their new driver, I did, downloaded it, launched the exe file and ... Et Voila! the driver launched my Epson scanner. I told the customer support person that and there was silence. I suggested maybe it was a software problem at their end. He admitted "Yeah maybe." but wasn't willing to follow that idea anywhere.

So he claimed the problem was with my Graphics card or driver and that the manufacturer of a monitor is under no obligation to test or warrant the suitability of their product for use with specific graphics cards and his suggestion was for me "to keep buying graphics cards until I found one that worked."

OOOOOOOkaaaaaaaaay

NewEgg wanted to charge me a 50% restocking fee since there was nothing wrong with the monitor (other than the fact it didn't work with my graphics card and they are not responsible for warning me that the prodcut I buy from them may be incompatible with a very common graphics card.) In their defense, I suppose if the manufacturer of the monitor didn't know it why should NewEgg?

So I was told by Samsung that I should find a graphics card that explicitly states it is compatible with Samsung's 2343BWX monitor.

Assholes and douche nozzles all of them, they can eat my little brown squirrel pellets.

Anybody have any good graphics cards suggestions. I'm not a gamer, I do watch movies on my computer and I would like to go with a dual monitor set-up.