Technical difficulties… again.
Once again, I am having some technical difficulties with my computer. Same bullshit as before: WinXP blue screen of death. Replacing the video card seems to have provided a fix for only a limited amountof time. About a month. Some of the symptoms are the same as before and there are some new ones. I am thinking that, like last year, some of my main RAM is faulty, which really pisses me off since this is the third batch of RAm in the past 18 months, which means I am consistently buying bad RAM or there is something in my environment causing the RAM to crap out.
What could do that? Same thing I wondered. Since these problems are starting at about the exact same time as they began last year i came up with a theory. Basically, this is the time of year when we first get the onset of cold weather. Cold air is generally dry air and static electricity is abundant in dry air. My PC is sitting on the concrete floor and I am thinking static buildup in the case may be wreaking havok. I am going to get an anti-static pad and see if that helps. I have been meaning to do that anyway and now I have impetus.
So now you know why the lack of posts. Every time I sit down to do some work, my fucking computer crashes. Kinda tends to bum one out after a while.
UPDATE - Sunday AM:
I think I may have the problem figured out. The new video card I put in was a PCI card. The on-board AGP port was most likely interfering with PCI card’s operation, causing the BSoD errors. I disabled the interrupt for the GP last night and so far so good. We’ll see as I have a lot of work to do after several days of photography and no computer.