Easy Fixes
In a previous rant I posted about a chronic freezing and crashing problem with my computer. I had long suspected that this was a heat issue, and that for some reason my computer couldn’t handle running around 50 degrees Centigrade, and that the only real solution would be to invest in a new, loud, potentially not-that-effective fan.
I wanted to put this off as long as possible, of course. But the issue of turning on my computer and having to hard reboot it just a couple hours later didn’t work for me, nor did it work for my buddy list and index of e-mail messages, both of which suffered from the OS suddenly crashing while they were being accessed. But first, just in case, I decided to try a somewhat less intensive solution–say, updating the BIOS for my motherboard.
Well, that was a few days ago, and I’m pleased to report that since then, I haven’t had a single sudden freeze. Either my fortune has coincidentally turned on a dime, the BIOS update did its job and solved my issue, or the new CPU driver I installed held the secret to success. In any event, I’m not questioning it, but will be pleased that I’ll be able to get my homework done without fearing for my sleep should I forget to save every 30 seconds.
Other technological issues continue to evade solution, however; I sent an e-mail to the company that made my GPS device about the fact that the device, well, doesn’t work, and after about a week and a half there’s been no response. I’ll have to look into other means of contacting them.
And I thought I had a serious partisan around here after looking at the poll results, but a check of the site logs reveals that there haven’t been nearly enough votes to account for that kind of lead. So I’ll have to look into that, too.
Uh, and by the way, school starts in less than a week. I’m kind of behind.
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