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Jan. 11th, 2012 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This morning I found that my computer had restarted overnight to update Windows, as it sometimes does, so I set about doing retrieving the stuff I'd left up the night before - job search materials, checking on my migration of my Sims files over to another hard drive, and standard internet browsing. Not even any video files or anything. Which is why it was A LITTLE SURPRISING to have the computer suddenly go all video-card-fuckery, a category with which I am intimately familiar, while I was reading a freaking DW news update!
Windows restarted itself, but it continued to go wonky after a very short amount of time spent trying to find video card drivers. I had to download the driver onto my laptop and access it from the desktop that way, because the desktop is currently showing me an array of closely-spaced flickering lines all over what should be my screen, and is responding to everything very slowly.
I really hope the driver update fixes it. All my fic lives on the desktop, as does Dragon Age Origins, and so do my Sims games. And also Microsoft Office and my resume. Priorities: I Can Haz.
Plus the driver install screen keeps taunting me, through its haze of computer-fuckery lines, with images of dragons and shit. YES I KNOW WHAT I WANT MY GRAPHICS CARD TO DO, NVIDIA, KTHX.
ETA: And just as I was editing my entry to say "huh, it seems to be fixed now," everything flashed and Karina's face turned lavender. FANTASTIC. Now I am editing from my laptop instead! To say no, it is not fixed! I may need a humorous sobbing icon if the contents of the "computerterror tribulations" tag continue to grow.
ETA 2: It restarted painlessly until I attempted to open Firefox, at which point it went started turning funny colors and sending snowflakes of fail across the screen. I mentioned this to the husband, and at his suggestion, tried IE. Then the screen decided to flash even more colors, helpfully illustrating all of this for the husband, who never actually saw Disco Deathwing. Windows attempted to give me a helpful message about shutting down the program to protect my computer. Maybe a bit late for that, Windows, but that's thoughtful of you all the same.
Next time, I'm not naming my computer after a robot soap opera star. Clearly, I gave it ideas.
Windows restarted itself, but it continued to go wonky after a very short amount of time spent trying to find video card drivers. I had to download the driver onto my laptop and access it from the desktop that way, because the desktop is currently showing me an array of closely-spaced flickering lines all over what should be my screen, and is responding to everything very slowly.
I really hope the driver update fixes it. All my fic lives on the desktop, as does Dragon Age Origins, and so do my Sims games. And also Microsoft Office and my resume. Priorities: I Can Haz.
Plus the driver install screen keeps taunting me, through its haze of computer-fuckery lines, with images of dragons and shit. YES I KNOW WHAT I WANT MY GRAPHICS CARD TO DO, NVIDIA, KTHX.
ETA: And just as I was editing my entry to say "huh, it seems to be fixed now," everything flashed and Karina's face turned lavender. FANTASTIC. Now I am editing from my laptop instead! To say no, it is not fixed! I may need a humorous sobbing icon if the contents of the "computer
ETA 2: It restarted painlessly until I attempted to open Firefox, at which point it went started turning funny colors and sending snowflakes of fail across the screen. I mentioned this to the husband, and at his suggestion, tried IE. Then the screen decided to flash even more colors, helpfully illustrating all of this for the husband, who never actually saw Disco Deathwing. Windows attempted to give me a helpful message about shutting down the program to protect my computer. Maybe a bit late for that, Windows, but that's thoughtful of you all the same.
Next time, I'm not naming my computer after a robot soap opera star. Clearly, I gave it ideas.
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Date: 2012-01-12 12:25 am (UTC)Which is to say: fucking video cards. Try brandishing a screwdriver at the screen! Sometimes that helps a bit.
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Date: 2012-01-12 01:02 am (UTC)I'm used to my video card fuckery seeming to be linked to World of Warcraft. At this point I have no IDEA what the hell is going on, or why it hates browsers.
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Date: 2012-01-12 01:07 am (UTC)Or did your video card see something on the Internet that it cannot unsee?
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Date: 2012-01-12 01:30 am (UTC)