wherein Liz has a very bad day (yesterday)

[edenfalling]

My computer crashed yesterday. I don't know what happened. It was fine when I went out to the laundromat; when I came back 45 minutes later, it woke from 'sleep,' made a distressed noise, and died.

It seems to be a reoccurrance of the problem I had a month or so ago (which fixed itself, oddly enough), but this time it's much worse. I can restart the computer, and it will run normally for 1 to 3 minutes, and then I get blue screen of death (with long explanatory spiel) for about ten seconds max (nowhere near enough time to read the long explanatory spiel), and then everything shuts down... sometimes accompanied by hideous, straining beeping noises, sometimes not.

Argh.

I called Best Buy, and someone is coming out to look at it between noon and 4pm on Saturday. I think I am still under warranty, and I have this vague memory of signing up for a service program when I bought the damned computer last Oct/Nov, but I will have to check my paperwork for details, and it will still be too expensive in any case.

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In other frustrating news, I discovered yesterday that I cannot order new checks because I have not previously ordered new checks. *headdesk*

See, apparently Deluxe, the company who printed my current set of checks, will not let you use their phone or internet ordering service unless they have a record of your account number. The only way to create such a record is to order refills via their snail-mail paper order form... which I seem to have lost.

It's not a crisis -- when I deposit my paycheck tomorrow, I'm going to make the bank order checks for me -- but it's extremely annoying.

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I have the persistent feeling that I've fallen out of the real world and into a Kafka novel.

Comments

[deralte.livejournal.com]

The BIOS is your operating systems framework so to speak, it's what controls the very basic commands on your computer. If you go into the computer info (by hitting F12 I think) when the Windows logo shows up, it'll tell you what version your BIOS is. Your computer's website will offer updated versions of the BIOS which fixes any problems they've found. It's a good idea to update your BIOS every 6-12 months since it'll fix any problems specific to your computer (my old laptop, for example, had a fan problem which was fixed in a later BIOS update). Of course, I wouldn't recommend doing all this until you know what's wrong with your computer. You may have an easy to fix problem or a bad hard drive.