Technical difficulties… cont’d
I might get this computer sorted out one of these days and start slinging some mud up here again. But probably I will just replace it. As the few regulars know, I can sling mud in large quantities day after day after day.
On the computer, currently I am thinking it is some kind of problem with AVG Free or with a botched update to Firefox 1.5. The exciting part of it all is that who the fuck really knows? I mean really. Who has the balls to stand up and say, “I can come in and fix you random BSoD system crashes. Guaranteed!”? Anyone?
I hear the Geek Squad does this. But, do they solve the problem, or do they just re-install and replace everything? Has one of the random BSoD events ever really been “solved” or are they simply fixed via the process of elimination? You know the process, where you buy a new video card, then if that doesn’t work, you upgrade the system BIOS, then buy some new RAM. Then after that seems to help but then really it doesn’t you begin to look into the grease used to seat the CPU into the motherboard.
By the way, I still stick to the advice at the end of the column I just linked to about the thermal grease. It is good, solid advice. It is just not guaranteed to help solve the Win XP blue screen of death crashes.
I think I will finally solve this computer by loading Win NT 4.0 sp6 on it and watch it run like the energizer bunny. Making it into my primary web server will significanly improve my HTTP performance, although it won’t help my DSL throughput problems one bit.
At least on my new computer, the BSoD crashes will be someone else’s problem for a while and I can just bitch about them.