Thanks for all the birthday wishes the past few days ( Read more... )

I haz a computer! \o/

So, yes, my new desktop arrived yesterday morning (almost a week ahead of schedule, which made me very happy). My Saturday was spent alternating between getting files copied over from my laptop/getting it set up in general and playing Mass Effect. Lots of Mass Effect.

(Speaking of Mass Effect: I've decided that I'm just ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I just ordered a new desktop computer ( Read more... )

Unnamed Nonprofit continues to be ridiculously busy. The phones have slowed down a tiny bit, but I think that's more because they've got a bunch of people in other departments helping answer calls rather than because people have stopped calling. Other work continues piling up as well, because we just can't get work done because the phones don't ( Read more... )

It's still a bit of a work in progress, but I'm slowly preparing my laptop to be my sole computer for the next few months. Sadly, it looks as if vidding is definitely off the table for the time being, because my laptop just doesn't have the memory for it. (I tried this afternoon. It didn't end well ( Read more... )

So, yeah, I've basically given up on my desktop at this point. It's staying on for less and less time before shutting down, to the point where -- the majority of the time -- we're talking a matter of seconds rather than minutes or hours. For the time being, I've said "fuck it" and unplugged it. It's currently sitting in the corner of my room, ( Read more... )

Well, I managed to do a clean reinstall of the OS. It definitely didn't fix the issue with the computer randomly shutting down without warning (not. even. a. little.), but it does appear to have stopped the other issues. Which, you know, is something at least ( Read more... )

So, yeah, the issues with my computer loading extremely slow and not properly running my antivirus and malware-related programs continues. And by "continues," I mean "is getting worse by the minute ( Read more... )

*headdesks forever*

Well, on the positive side, my computer hasn't randomly turned off in a whole 36 hours or so. I opened up the case and ran it most of the day without the cover on it, which apparently made some sort of difference. No idea what, but it's something. And it's definitely making me think that there has to be something overheating ( Read more... )

Note to self: no matter how gratifying it might be to toss your desktop computer out the nearest window, you will eventually regret it. So try to resist the urge ( Read more... )