Stupid computer

[godream]

So I've been getting these terrible blue-screen-of-deaths at random intervals, occasionally mere minutes after booting up my laptop. When I drag the computer back up from its indigo deathbed it reminds me that it's just had a near-death encounter and wants to contact windows support. Sometimes I let it but it never comes up with anything useful.

Today I tried going to the Dell site and using their auto-problem-checker doodad. Its conclusions? I "haven't downloaded the latest critical updates for Microsoft Office" and (drumroll please) my "speaker volume is too low or muted". Boy, thanks guys! I never would have known. That's gotta be the root of ALL my problems.

In other news, I'm feeling much better. Yay! Symptoms now down to mild occasional headache and less bad but still rusty and slightly painful throat. Which is a strange thing to follow with another hurrah but I'm glad to be sick-but-functional as opposed to what I was yesterday morning, so: hurrah!

Comments

[shaktool.livejournal.com]

I had very similar symptoms a while ago. It turned out that I had some bad RAM, though none of the various diagnostic programs I ran could tell me this. But when I took out the bad RAM chip and left in the good one (I had to guess which was which) it worked fine.

This is entirely unrelated to what finally killed my computer for good.

[cassandraia.livejournal.com]

Glad you;re feeling better. Hope your computer gets well soon, too!

(Yes, I know I need to return your tectbook.)

[godream.livejournal.com]

Interesting -- I'd wondered if that might be the case. It's going to be *such* a pain to test because although sometimes everything falls apart three minutes after booting up, other times it's fine for hours before it fails: the worst kind of problem to track down...

[godream.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

Don't panic about getting it back to me right this instant -- I'd actually totally forgotten -- whenever works is fine. :)