FruitBat ([info]al_fruitbat) wrote,
@ 2009-08-07 17:50:00
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Damn these difference engines!
My 'puter is on the blink.

This is particularly irritating since I am currently attempting to make said 'puter my primay source of income. Having it BSOD on me about 10-30 minutes after the screensaver kicks off* is sub-optimal, to say the least.

Initially I thought it might be the GFX card, but I only bought that 17 months ago.. and it's not overheating. In fact, it looks fine.

It appears that it might be time for me to begin another complete reformat and reinstall - which nowadays will take around 1-2 days or so, and still cause annoyance when you realise that Utility X is no longer installed.

Oh well. Could be worse. Suppose I'd better get on with it.

I wish stability (or even error tracking) were a priority in modern OS's.

(*Only when a particular program fires, and not always, and it crashes occasionally during YouTube during use, so it's not that simple)



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[info]bateleur
2009-08-07 10:09 pm UTC (link)
It appears that it might be time for me to begin another complete reformat and reinstall

It surprises me to hear this. I haven't had a computer become unstable due to software factors for over five years now. What makes you suspect this is the cause?

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[info]al_fruitbat
2009-08-08 09:31 am UTC (link)
Award thyself a biscuit. Turns out that one of my sticks of RAM had gone bad, which might explain things.

It still might be time for a reformat though - this machine is now a bit crufty and slow to boot up.

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[info]bateleur
2009-08-08 09:40 am UTC (link)
Turns out that one of my sticks of RAM had gone bad, which might explain things.

Sounds very plausible. :-(

Still, it's at least relatively cheap to repair.

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[info]al_fruitbat
2009-08-08 09:58 am UTC (link)
£20 for 2 new 1Gb sticks of RAM, which will take this system up to 3Gb, so could even be classed as an 'upgrade'. I thought redundancy might be a good plan anyway.

Blimey, RAM's cheap nowadays ;-)

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