Ups and Downs
Jul. 20th, 2011 08:38 pm*sad face* *sigh* ...oh well...
In other news, my computer would not stop restarting itself. I re-formatted. I swapped out every component out except the mb and cpu. So I went and bought a new mb and cpu. AMD, this time around, rather than Intel. I needed to keep it under 200. Then I went and blew $50 on new ram and sacrificed some budgeted project materials for a new video card.
The re-starting problem may be gone... Hasn't done it yet, but while some days it would re-start itself several times, at other points it could go days without crashing on me randomly. If it can make it to next Wednesday without crashing, I'll call it a win.
I had that old rig from 2008 to now, so, for me, that was quite a lot of use for one purchase *cough*quinndon'teven*cough*
But now I'm having a completely different problem, almost certainly related to the video card. I'm going to put the old one back in and see if that solves the issue. If it does, well, return ahoy! I shouldn't've spent that money anyway.
At least now I don't need to worry about the damn thing crashing on me between one autosave and the next while writing a paper.
In other news, my computer would not stop restarting itself. I re-formatted. I swapped out every component out except the mb and cpu. So I went and bought a new mb and cpu. AMD, this time around, rather than Intel. I needed to keep it under 200. Then I went and blew $50 on new ram and sacrificed some budgeted project materials for a new video card.
The re-starting problem may be gone... Hasn't done it yet, but while some days it would re-start itself several times, at other points it could go days without crashing on me randomly. If it can make it to next Wednesday without crashing, I'll call it a win.
I had that old rig from 2008 to now, so, for me, that was quite a lot of use for one purchase *cough*quinndon'teven*cough*
But now I'm having a completely different problem, almost certainly related to the video card. I'm going to put the old one back in and see if that solves the issue. If it does, well, return ahoy! I shouldn't've spent that money anyway.
At least now I don't need to worry about the damn thing crashing on me between one autosave and the next while writing a paper.