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Thursday 29th June 2006
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Oh dear. Something's gone wrong with the computer again. So I'm quite happily playing around with Google Earth (I think I was in Brisbane at
the time) when it all gets a bit too much for it, so I go back to my maths assignment and leave it for a bit. Half an hour later, and it's pretty
obvious that the poor thing's completely locked-up, so I do a reboot. However, during the reboot, the computer spends ages and ages on the
motherboard boot-up screen (the bit before the operating system kicks in), as if it's lost something. Eventually it boots-up as normal, and
everything goes fine, only the graphical log-in screen doesn't start, something to do with no valid graphics card configuration existing,
except that I haven't altered this recently, and nor would I have any cause to alter this file, even if I could find it. Trouble is, I've had
problems in the past both with this motherboard, the BIOS and the video card (the on-board fan just stopped working) so I've no idea who to
point the finger at this time. Anyone would think I bought really cheap, rubbishy parts for my computer. The motherboard is an Asus A7V8x (I think) and the graphics card is something like a nVidia GeForce 440MX - hardly the kind of things you would pick up at Aldi/Netto on a Saturday morning. Help.
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Ah well, looks like the video card is gone then. I asked my neighbour to try it out in his PC and he got nowhere with it, which begs the question why it failed in the first place. Hmmmmm. So for now I'm using some ancient 16MB Voodoo 2000 (?!) graphics card. Maths assignment now complete.
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