Well, sort of. And I'm talking about my compooter.

After much swearing and cutting of skin (not me or mine), the problem has been isolated to the video card. It seems that when the power supply detects something dodgy with the other hardware, it cuts off. Thanks to eirivan 's spare power supply, A played around with different combinations of hardware.

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For those who might be vaguely interested...

( More geekery )

At 11.30pm last night my computer (or more specifically, WinXP) decided to have a spasm. As I tried to open up a Microsoft Office programme, it tells me set up is not complete. Bear in mind I had been using this new set up of my laptop for the last 2 months at least. Strange, I thought, so I tried to reboot. Only to get a very similar message ( Read more... )