Post by Deathtanz Mantisk on Nov 15, 2009 15:55:40 GMT 2
'twas a day no other from the ones predeeding it. Yours truly woke up, opened laptop lid, looked at Oblivion as to wether the chara I had left running into a corner of a house had gained those Athletics skill ups I needed to master the skill.
And I saw a black screen with one of em typing underline thingys frozen in the top left corner.
Confusion struck. What had happened? I soon forgot all about it, rebooted the comp, and went on to surf the interwebs, watching nonsensical gaming videos on the youtubes. And that was when it happened...
...Bluescreen of death and doom.
Comp reboots itself, and I stand in horror. Virus? Viruses? Comp fan melted due to me keeping this thing on for days? Or was it just the fact that it's Vista on a laptop, which is just about the doomiest doom imaginable (in case you don't know what Vista is like accompanied with a laptop, bless you for your blissful ignorance... the horror is unspeakable). Said Vista soon suggested that it had figured out what was wrong. I missed updates. Nonsense, says I. I installed them updates and the same happened again; with no pattern involved whatsoever, my comp would go bluescreen. Over and over again. Thus, with Vista having failed me, I consulted the true paragorn of wisdom: google.
Soon I discovered a forum of some sorts wherein some dude suggested some ways to fix this. Use virus scan. AVG found a few cookies or something, but that was it. Then it suggested I use some memory check tool -thing which all Vista ought to have somewhere. Couldn't find it. Then it suggested I open up my computer, head to properties, head to ADVANCED properties, head to performance, to FURTHER ADVANCED PROPERTIES (at this point I was assured that I was dwelling admist some highest of importance adjustments of the comp, and that any misclicks from my part would end up in my computer changing it's language to some ancient egyptian hieroglyphs...). The guidance provided by the man of google suggested that I'd click some performance memory data RAM whachamacallit display things, and edit it from automatic to custom, and add different values there. In essence, this would not fix the bluescreen of doom from whatever caused it, but it would apparently simply make it so that when the computer made the horrible error which caused the bluescreen, that bluescreen would fail to set on and despite detecting it, I would not receive bluescreen. So apparently it's like that I have an alarm system for my car in case of burglery, every day some neighbourhood thug breaks in to my car and steals my spare change, the alarm goes off and I have to go outside to turn it off, I get frustrated, so my solution is to set the alarm off for good and let the burglar keep up with his criminal activities, since now I'm happy with the alarm no longer bothering me.
Then again, this is VISTA ON A LAPTOP, which in my opinion means that the bluescreen might as well be caused by nothing but the overwhelming retardom which this damned system is composed of.
Regardless of the succesful nature of my recent campaign, I'm a bit puzzled at this point. Did I do something to fix the problem that makes my comp vulnerable to anything and that by the end of the month I'll have so many devices of demise in it that I'll end up having to format C? I wouldn't quite deem myself a novice of computers, but something beneath even that. That being said, I have no clue what it was that I've just done and how it affects something. I did get a warning at some point which indeed said that the bluescreen now fails to backup my memory if it happens, but now bluescreen no longer happens, so I suppose it's fine.
So, if anyone with knowledge regarding computers knows what it was that I just did, and if it's something that I certainly shouldn't have done, do tell me. :p
This incoherent nonsensical banter was sponsored by Jimmy's Used Motoring
And I saw a black screen with one of em typing underline thingys frozen in the top left corner.
Confusion struck. What had happened? I soon forgot all about it, rebooted the comp, and went on to surf the interwebs, watching nonsensical gaming videos on the youtubes. And that was when it happened...
...Bluescreen of death and doom.
Comp reboots itself, and I stand in horror. Virus? Viruses? Comp fan melted due to me keeping this thing on for days? Or was it just the fact that it's Vista on a laptop, which is just about the doomiest doom imaginable (in case you don't know what Vista is like accompanied with a laptop, bless you for your blissful ignorance... the horror is unspeakable). Said Vista soon suggested that it had figured out what was wrong. I missed updates. Nonsense, says I. I installed them updates and the same happened again; with no pattern involved whatsoever, my comp would go bluescreen. Over and over again. Thus, with Vista having failed me, I consulted the true paragorn of wisdom: google.
Soon I discovered a forum of some sorts wherein some dude suggested some ways to fix this. Use virus scan. AVG found a few cookies or something, but that was it. Then it suggested I use some memory check tool -thing which all Vista ought to have somewhere. Couldn't find it. Then it suggested I open up my computer, head to properties, head to ADVANCED properties, head to performance, to FURTHER ADVANCED PROPERTIES (at this point I was assured that I was dwelling admist some highest of importance adjustments of the comp, and that any misclicks from my part would end up in my computer changing it's language to some ancient egyptian hieroglyphs...). The guidance provided by the man of google suggested that I'd click some performance memory data RAM whachamacallit display things, and edit it from automatic to custom, and add different values there. In essence, this would not fix the bluescreen of doom from whatever caused it, but it would apparently simply make it so that when the computer made the horrible error which caused the bluescreen, that bluescreen would fail to set on and despite detecting it, I would not receive bluescreen. So apparently it's like that I have an alarm system for my car in case of burglery, every day some neighbourhood thug breaks in to my car and steals my spare change, the alarm goes off and I have to go outside to turn it off, I get frustrated, so my solution is to set the alarm off for good and let the burglar keep up with his criminal activities, since now I'm happy with the alarm no longer bothering me.
Then again, this is VISTA ON A LAPTOP, which in my opinion means that the bluescreen might as well be caused by nothing but the overwhelming retardom which this damned system is composed of.
Regardless of the succesful nature of my recent campaign, I'm a bit puzzled at this point. Did I do something to fix the problem that makes my comp vulnerable to anything and that by the end of the month I'll have so many devices of demise in it that I'll end up having to format C? I wouldn't quite deem myself a novice of computers, but something beneath even that. That being said, I have no clue what it was that I've just done and how it affects something. I did get a warning at some point which indeed said that the bluescreen now fails to backup my memory if it happens, but now bluescreen no longer happens, so I suppose it's fine.
So, if anyone with knowledge regarding computers knows what it was that I just did, and if it's something that I certainly shouldn't have done, do tell me. :p
This incoherent nonsensical banter was sponsored by Jimmy's Used Motoring
