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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
20 December 2009. That is the day my Ferrari Laptop died. Let's observe a minute of silence.......
Ok.
I was planning on having fun playing Team Fortress 2 on that day. I only played it for about an hour or two the day before, and I wanted to play it even more on 20 December so that I could enjoy as much of it as possible. Valve was offering TF2 for free play during that time. Unfortunately, after playing for about 30 minutes on that day, the laptop just blacked out. I was going to snipe someone then, and I just went, "wtf". The laptop blacking out isn't something that hasn't happened before, so I wasn't too worried. However, try as I might, pressing the power button didn't seem to do anything. I turned off and on the main power supply. Nothing. Then I looked at the battery adaptor. The light on it was blinking faintly. I plugged out the wire connection to the laptop, and the light lit up perfectly. I have no idea what happened, but my Dad didn't want to repair the laptop anymore because its just a waste of money.
So, now I have a new computer. I think I did say previously that I didn't want a new computer that early, since I can't really take advantage of getting a Directx11 card. I did get Windows 7 though. Also, my computer is going to gain 2 years of age without me using it very often. Sigh.
Anyway, here are the specifications for the computer:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @2.66GHz
RAM: 3072MB DDR3
Hard Drive: 736GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB
Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio
It isn't anything amazing, but its only SGD$1399 and it works fine. Google "Acer Aspire M5800" and you'll see its a budget power-pc. However, it has already been giving me problems. Just early this morning, the computer just became slower and slower, and then suddenly, it hanged. Next thing I knew, I saw a blue screen of death. I still have no idea what happened, but its fine now. Later in the night, while playing Battleforge, I was alt-tabbing frequently because I was either waiting for people to load (I'm finally waiting for others, ha!), or waiting for people to join. When I alt-tabbed back to the game, the screen just started flickering between my desktop and a black screen. The only way to stop it was to put my computer in sleep mode by using the button on the keyboard, waking it up, then closing the game without maximizing the game. It started when I saw a notification from Windows that the Geforce drivers had stopped responding, and that it has recovered. I seriously wonder why there are so little Radeon cards in premade computers. They're cheaper and provide the same or better performance.
Peektures!
posted @ 12:30 am
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