Angry laptop is angry
Boy, I don’t know what I did, but all of a sudden my laptop is having all sorts of schizophrenic problems. One moment it blue screens, the next it’s giving me errors I’ve never seen before, something about Vista Authentication. It wouldn’t even go into safe mode.
Eventually I got it to boot into Windows, not through any deliberate action but just by repeatedly trying to get in. But now I’m distrustful of its spastic behavior and have decided that I may as well reformat this damn thing too.
So I scrambled to get all my stuff backed up onto Spark’s external drive (convenient) and am about to start the long and probably painful process of doing first Vista Home and then putting Ultimate back on. I also think I want to do some partitioning, but I’m not sure where in the process that occurs, so will have to play it by ear. qq.
In the meantime, I finally got around to reformatting my desktop a few days ago and reinstalled just the bare essentials… and it’s been running very well, thank god. I think I even got an extra 5-10fps back in WoW. XP
[edit]
Great. After extended attempts at putting a fresh install of Vista on the laptop, I’ve determined that the problem(s) are all a result of fried RAM sticks. Finally ran pre-boot system diagnostics and the laptop went all crazy when it came to test memory and complained about DIMM_B… which is a RAM slot.
So… the summation is that my desktop, which I’ve had for 8+ years has broken down less than my laptop, which I’ve had for less than three years and already replaced the graphics card twice and currently suffers from what is probably a broken fan which probably also led to a melting hard drive / RAM sticks.
Laptops suck so much. I really wish the iPad wasn’t worthless for coding, because I’d totally get one then. Now I’m not quite sure what to do… repair might be more expensive than getting a new laptop, but I’d rather get a new desktop… but I’m not quite done with needing a mobile computer.
GRRRrrrRRrrRRrrrr.
Good thing I got all my data off first, and all my Schism code is safe on my SVN server. -_-
