Computer blues...
My computer's been something really funny lately. When I try to play some games, the game immediately gives me a blue screen and restarts. I am curious, because it seems to happen only with some games (I can play Alice with no trouble at all, but FastCrawl dies instantly).
Through exhaustive research, I've narrowed the problem down to two possible culprits:
1) A driver issue. Entirely possible, but unlikely; I didn't upgrade the drivers until
2) Damaged capacitors on the video card. This would SUCK, since I don't even make enough money to pay rent, let alone replace it. Unfortunately, this is what seems most likely.
In order to check that, though, I'd need to crack open the laptop case. This is not something I have much of a desire in doing at all, given that it is highly likely I would not be able to put the damn thing back together again. Which means that I now have a huge stack of games that I cannot play.
Sigh.
PS: I do not care if my password is easy to guess, livejournal. If someone wants to hijack my journal, they can have the damn thing.
Through exhaustive research, I've narrowed the problem down to two possible culprits:
1) A driver issue. Entirely possible, but unlikely; I didn't upgrade the drivers until
2) Damaged capacitors on the video card. This would SUCK, since I don't even make enough money to pay rent, let alone replace it. Unfortunately, this is what seems most likely.
In order to check that, though, I'd need to crack open the laptop case. This is not something I have much of a desire in doing at all, given that it is highly likely I would not be able to put the damn thing back together again. Which means that I now have a huge stack of games that I cannot play.
Sigh.
PS: I do not care if my password is easy to guess, livejournal. If someone wants to hijack my journal, they can have the damn thing.