Saturday, April 5, 2008

Blue Screen of Death

So, my computer gave us the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, and then it wouldn't restart. We determined it was the video card and would cost us probably $100 to get back up and running. So after researching cards online (this is why we will probably always have two computers in the house), we traipse over to Best Buy to pick up the card we need. To our incredible good fortune, the card was on clearance, marked down from $102 to $55!! AND, we found a 10% off coupon online, which basically paid for the tax. So my computer got a spiffy new video card (that does DirectX 10) for less than $60! Curtis immediately started making comments about how the desktop will become the game computer now, because it will probably out perform his laptop, lol. (It's always that way though, with two computers it's always a game of leap frog).

So now we just have to get the drivers installed. They haven't cooperated so far, so everything on the screen looks a little funny. At least the computer works though!!

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