Sunday, August 1
Shit happens...
My video card went out sometime Thursday night. Got a new card, put it in Friday night.
Today, I get a blue screen about a registry error. Half my registry seems to be gone. No printers installed, programs dying left and right. Copy all the crap I think I need off to another drive, reformat, reinstall. I may still have issues.
The machine tends to lock up the desktop. Card problem? Possibly. Every now and then, the screen goes blank, like something bad happened, and then it comes back fine. Card problem?
Now, I'm missing my 6 megabyte font files for unicode. Was. Fixed it now. Sheesh.
Installed the latest and greatest software for my keyboard and mouse. They changed the default for the scroll wheel click, so I had to figure that out to work with Mozilla (Autoscroll fixed that). My mute and volume keys still don't work, so evidently they are bad. Maybe time to open the keyboard up and see what's going on.
At any rate, I've been wasting too much time to get this damn thing running. Again. And I'm not even sure that the corruption problem is solved. It could be the damn CPU overheating. It could be a bad piece of memory.
Maybe it's time to run memtest86 for 24 hours to see if anything shows up.
If I had any kind of money, I'd be getting a new system. Period. Sigh. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 8/01/2004 01:48:00 AM
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