xfirefly9x

Computer problems. Specifically, those I mentioned last post and additionally, every so often the screen blinks black and then back to whatever I was doing. This blinking may be one time, or multiple times, and while it usually is quite fast, at least twice, the screen has gone blank for a full minute or so. (Nothing particular to trigger it, either. It's happened while using Chrome in general, while looking at pics on facebook, and while attempting to watch something on VLC player.)

Zach is convinced it's something to do with the graphics card, which makes sense, only neither of us can figure out how to fix things.

Ideas? Should I be backing up everything (else; I've already backed up writing) and looking into a new computer? :/

Any and all help is much appreciated.

My PC has been making some terrible noises on first turning it on lately. My brother has put it down to it needing a clean and has suggested I get some compressed air.

However...
1) I've never done this before and am a little terrified of doing something wrong.
2) I can't find where to buy compressed air from.

Thoughts? Ideas? Tips?

My life right now: Uni and reading (Gideon's Sword by Preston & Child, and Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson) with some multi-player Halo: Reach and Zach stuff thrown in.

Aaaaaand... for one of my units we're in a room full of Macs and supposed to use these Macs for class and assignment-related tasks. DNW. I'm a PC-er!

I'm about to pack away my computer, Inara. I really don't wanna. As Zach said, it'll be like "dismantling a friend".

Brings to mind a quote from Serenity. Definitely applies.

Mal: If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you — I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.

+ Glee. Only one thing to say about it. ( Read more... )

+ Got a new external hard drive on Wednesday. Met Zach at Indro again and he helped pick it out (and then we went back to his place and copied over about 100gb of stuff lol). Aaanyway. It's soooo shiny and black and beautiful! ♥ Currently copying all TV eps over to it from my old one.. which is taking a long while! I have like 850GB of TV shows. o.0 I plan to use my old 1TB one for anything non-TV (writing, uni, games, etc) and this new one for TV stuff. Works well with size (at least for now :P) Will have to see how things go with that. I can get so very OCD with that sort of thing so it might change.

+ 2 assignments down (this week), 3 to go (next week). 7,000 words and I'm done with uni for this semester. The next few days are likely gonna kill me but at least after that I can... die in the comfort of my bed with DVDs and interwebs and such as I pass from this world. Aaand if I don't die from it, there's Scriptwriting next semester, yay! XD

+ Have to write the first chapter of a novel for one of my last assignments. I'm not sure how it's going to go. I was going to use something I wrote previously and just edit that to near death, but I'm not sure that's the best way to go. Not much time to figure it all out so I'll have to decide that soon! Think I'll screw up my sleeping patterns again (they were just getting good!) and stay up a few hours longer tonight to work on that. Anyone up for betaing that sometime between now and Saturday-ish? Massively helpful, that'd be.

+ Anyone interested in a word war? xfirefly9x@hotmail.com. Check the tags for definition of a word war if you don't know. ;)

+ Ah! Instead of getting a mini!laptop (or maybe as well as.. hmm) I'm going through a guy that dad and the brother know quite well to get a custom built computer. Sounds pretty amazing so far. Better than Thomas' computer. I think he's a little jealous about that. But he's being really helpful about it all. *squishes him* My biggest concern with this atm is where to put it. I need to get a desk!! Or another chair to set it up on. :P