August 1, 2004
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Blog Power–
Minimalist blog here, just composing it in Notepad, then a quick copy and paste to xTools, trying hard not to trigger a freeze.
Yesterday, I emailed the computer doc a link to my blog with the screen
shots and description of the problem. He emailed back that he’s
99.9% sure it’s the memory on the video card. I spent the whole
day yesterday fiddling with this machine, running diagnostics and doing
cleanup work. I deleted several hundred cookies, until my neck
and shoulders were hurting too much to continue (Damned Disease!!), and
got up through the letter “C”, right to Greyfox’s Daily Dilbert cookie,
before I quit. By the time Doug got up yesterday evening the C drive
was 95% defragged, and when it froze at that point, we let the rest of
it go.He went shopping, not very confident of finding a new video card for
this old computer, because he’d had a hard time finding this one that’s
gone wonky on us here now. But he succeeded, found one faster and
with more onboard memory than this one. Now we’re waiting for the
Priority Mail to arrive.It’s important to Doug to have a functional computer this week.
He’s got a tournament going on. When I woke today, he was all
bummed out, face like a thundercloud, on the PS2, in GTA Vice City,
maiming and killing to release his tension. The computer was
off. He said he’d nearly ruptured the squishy stuffed elephant
that’s his handy tension reliever here beside the keyboard. Thank
God he hadn’t resorted to the Martian Popping Thing, or it would have
woken me early.I turned this lovely machine on (sweet talk can’t hurt) and the display
was even worse than those screen shots I posted yesterday. I gave
it what Greyfox calls the technological laying on of hands,
power-cycled two or three times until I got a readable display, then
let it boot in safe mode far enough that I could do a normal shut down
and restart, and it functioned well enough for Doug to post his first
round in the tourney.Greyfox just phoned and said he stopped at the internet cafe this
morning and blogged, so that’s my next stop, then I’m off here and back
on the couch in Disgaea with my demon horde for a while. This
fibro-flare or chronic fatigue relapse or just plain
body-malfunction-syndrome upheaval is worse than usual.
Yesterday’s activity was stressful even though there were some payoffs
for it. Today is payback time.
Comments (3)
WOW – yesterday my roomie had a bad fibro day too, she could hardly walk or move, – I wish u one day with out pain
Good luck getting the pc fixed.
Pain Switch. It’s kept me running the past six weeks.
But I can see the horizon. And it ain’t a purty thang.
I’ve begun to load up on my vitamins, and I’m trying to sleep. The key word here is *trying*.
Rhymes with *crying*. I DID have my cry fest yesterday. Amazing what tears can do to release toxins. Amazing.
Good luck and good energy to the computer, and to you, my lovely, my wonderful, my ineffable SuSu.