posted 2006/01/29 at 20:00
So in addition to having my prized Cobalt Flux apparently bite the dust (see my diet log for the details on that), the situation with the graphics card on Yggdrasil Mark I is getting more and more dire. Now when I start getting a lot of artifacts on screen I sometimes have the graphic feed cut off on me for a second before being restored, and a couple of times when the feed's cut off, the computer's spontaneously rebooted.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics card driver, I've run Norton Utilities, I've done just about everything I can think of doing short of buying a new graphics card. Even when I went to my local computer shop, though, I found that it is damn near impossible to get a graphics card these days without buying all sorts of RAM and 3-D processors that I don't freaking need. Seriously, what happened to the good old days of 8 MB on a card, you get your 24-bit colour and you're happy? Not that I don't see the need for 3-D cards for all the gamers out there, but what about the rest of us?
The bottom line is that the Nevada trip is looking more and more like it's not going to happen, and that seriously scares me. I may need to start looking for miracles here.
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