Digital Dave

Seriously.

This hardware issue has turned into a real pain, but luckily I’m a pretty relaxed guy and take things for what it’s worth.

They replaced my RAM, Video Card, Motherboard, LCD screen.  The blue screen of death is gone, and the graphical issues with the LCD is gone.

Well, sort of.  I boot up my computer, and it doesn’t matter if I go into Ubuntu, or Windows, the screen goes black either A) after the desktop has loaded, B) Before the Windows screen, or directly after, C) Right after the system has been given power.

If it sits on the black screen for long enough, it’ll actually reboot the system, or just hang.

But the black screen seems to be random.  I’m thinking about 1 in 10/15 start ups, I’ll actually get windows to load (hey, I need things off this thing!).  This problem even stalks me in safe mode.

Anyway, time to contact Dell again. Hey, they are a great company, and they’ll figure this out.  In the mean time, this stinks and thank God for my warranty.

So, my lovely Dell XPS decided to begin being a pain in my side a few days ago while my girlfriend was playing Peggle on it (awesome game, by the way). My immediate reaction was that it was probably a screen issue, or a graphics card issue. But, once I restarted my computer, I got a gem of an error in addition to the graphical problems: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA… Computer 2, Me 0…

Great… So now I have a memory issue? I ran a memory test outside of windows, and it passed. I ran windows recover console, and while it found some problems, it didn’t fix the error…

I let the laptop sit for a while and booted the thing up. Poof, windows booted. Yay! Hey, no graphical problems, either! Woohoo! Computer 2, Me 2!

Well, there’s no escape from the hardware gods. The computer went crazy on me after a few hours. Screen went black, green dots everywhere. Computer 4, Me -2837454746.

Anyway, I contacted Dell. Someone will be paying a visit to ‘Lil-Lappy’ next week. Warranty FTW.

My life revolves around this laptop. If I didn’t pay so much for Windows Vista, I might be using my desktop for more than just gaming. ;|