Digital Dave

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. ;|