I need to see how I might prevent it from happening again, so here we go.
<bg> I own a Compaq laptop. I got it with Vista (yeah, I know) back in 2007. Worked marvelously until it decided it didn't want to register the wireless card any more about a year and a half ago. Alright... I can live with that as I use it mainly at home and have Ethernet cords up the wazoo. Then about a month ago, the screen went black on start up. It would work fine in safe mode and safe mode with networking, so it definitely wasn't any of the core components of the computer.
I tried doing a system restore. No luck. Then after fooling around with that a bit more, I finally said fuck it and restored it to the factory default. I had nothing I absolutely NEEDED to keep that I wouldn't be able to get back, so all was good. It worked for maybe an hour before going black on me again. Bubbles was NOT happy because restoring it had reactivated the wireless and all was smooth sailing.
Finally, I allowed my roommate to just wipe the damn thing and upgrade it to XP (yes, I said upgrade) since I have an install disc and an activation key that still had a use or two left on it. It was a whole mess because of my lack of driver discs and whatnot, but it was finally fixed and I'm contently typing away on my working-like-new Lunchbox at this moment.</bg>
My question to you, my lovely techies... Is would any of you happen to know what the hell that was, and if so, was it something I could have avoided? If it was caused directly by me, I'd like to have an idea of what it was so I can avoid it like the plague in the future. I would REALLY like to just leave the desktop in storage instead of in the middle of the floor in my video game room.
<bg> I own a Compaq laptop. I got it with Vista (yeah, I know) back in 2007. Worked marvelously until it decided it didn't want to register the wireless card any more about a year and a half ago. Alright... I can live with that as I use it mainly at home and have Ethernet cords up the wazoo. Then about a month ago, the screen went black on start up. It would work fine in safe mode and safe mode with networking, so it definitely wasn't any of the core components of the computer.
I tried doing a system restore. No luck. Then after fooling around with that a bit more, I finally said fuck it and restored it to the factory default. I had nothing I absolutely NEEDED to keep that I wouldn't be able to get back, so all was good. It worked for maybe an hour before going black on me again. Bubbles was NOT happy because restoring it had reactivated the wireless and all was smooth sailing.
Finally, I allowed my roommate to just wipe the damn thing and upgrade it to XP (yes, I said upgrade) since I have an install disc and an activation key that still had a use or two left on it. It was a whole mess because of my lack of driver discs and whatnot, but it was finally fixed and I'm contently typing away on my working-like-new Lunchbox at this moment.</bg>
My question to you, my lovely techies... Is would any of you happen to know what the hell that was, and if so, was it something I could have avoided? If it was caused directly by me, I'd like to have an idea of what it was so I can avoid it like the plague in the future. I would REALLY like to just leave the desktop in storage instead of in the middle of the floor in my video game room.
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