Well I was making a thread on TW about how my power went out today. It was all eloquent and I was on my third paragraph of the story and shit, but then I got a STOP error. I don't think I've ever had one on this computer.
Anyways, my power went out today as I found out when I got home and there was some letter from the apartment complex that apologized for the delay. There were like 50mph winds today, and I gues some power lines got knocked down.
So I get home, and ol' Betsy is silent as a lamb. I've been messing with computers for 15 years, so when I turned it on and everything powered up but I never got to the BIOS, it was not unexpected. So I turned off the main power, let it sit for a few, then turned it back on and it booted fine.
So I start making some PS's for the TWIP/TWIS thread since I haven't done any in awhile, and as I go to move the contrast on a layer, the mouse freezes. I hit ctrl-alt-del by instinct, and the monitor turned off for a split second (no signal), then turned back on and everything was fine, not frozen.
Now it keeps happening every so often. And sometimes I can move the mouse if it wasn't moving while the computer froze. When it unfreezes, usually leaves visual glitches like a fucked up mouse pointer or an incorrectly drawn webpage.
I hope nothing's permanently damaged.
My beloved Hitachi 19" SuperScan Elite 751 can not die! It sounds more like a PSU murmur or something though. I'm willing to bet $90 that it is the Sound Blaster Live! in there.
Anyways, carry on.
Anyways, my power went out today as I found out when I got home and there was some letter from the apartment complex that apologized for the delay. There were like 50mph winds today, and I gues some power lines got knocked down.
So I get home, and ol' Betsy is silent as a lamb. I've been messing with computers for 15 years, so when I turned it on and everything powered up but I never got to the BIOS, it was not unexpected. So I turned off the main power, let it sit for a few, then turned it back on and it booted fine.
So I start making some PS's for the TWIP/TWIS thread since I haven't done any in awhile, and as I go to move the contrast on a layer, the mouse freezes. I hit ctrl-alt-del by instinct, and the monitor turned off for a split second (no signal), then turned back on and everything was fine, not frozen.
Now it keeps happening every so often. And sometimes I can move the mouse if it wasn't moving while the computer froze. When it unfreezes, usually leaves visual glitches like a fucked up mouse pointer or an incorrectly drawn webpage.
I hope nothing's permanently damaged.
My beloved Hitachi 19" SuperScan Elite 751 can not die! It sounds more like a PSU murmur or something though. I'm willing to bet $90 that it is the Sound Blaster Live! in there.Anyways, carry on.
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