The beast's healthy intervals got shorter and its sick intervals got longer, so we ran some diagnostics and I determined to replace the hard drive. With that done (I had a lot of help), I loaded a trial version of Windows 7 (I had a lot of help) and declared victory.
Next day, Megan calls me at school and lets me know that the machine began acting up again as soon as I left home. Curses! I rechecked the hardware specs for Windows 7. I reloaded. No dice. I loaded Vista again. It didn't finish loading, but the machine finally offered me another clue. BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH & PAGINATION ERROR IN NON-PAGINATED AREA. After a quick google search, I found what I hope is the answer.
Random access memory. Stick by stick replacement to see which one was bad. It's not actually very hard - and it looks like I discovered the bad stick on the first try. I replaced the first stick and reloaded 7. Voila! It's up and running. We'll see though. I'm at school now. The computer's sixth sense will kick in and it'll break. I better check my messages.
If you didn't like this post, you can still be glad. Now Megan has the tools she needs to keep posting.
Planned success posts: bathroom remodeled, basment finished, kitchen remodeled, bathroom 2 remodeled, crown molding installed, bedrooms remodeled (x4).
1 comment:
Although I didn't understand all the computer lingo in this post I am glad your computer is working again. I do look forward to Megan's posts, but you started a story about a little light and you never finished it. I have been waiting to hear the end of the story. I know you are busy but maybe over the holidays you could cram it in. You can't just start a story and not finish it.
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