Bah

[deborah_c]

Work computer has exploded. As in: resets itself spontaneously every so often, applications crash randomly, and now blue-screens during boot. It doesn't even give the same error each time...

Sigh. Time to try to find all the packages I need to work, and install them on the laptop. Which also spontaneously resets from time to time, and on which applications crash randomly, but which at least is capable of booting... Unfortunately, it's also oldish and not terribly fast, and repairing it would probably be ridiculously expensive.

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[dreamfracture.livejournal.com]

My computer LITERALLY exploded at the start of this year. I was most irritated.

Hope things start to work out a bit better as soon as possible.

[naranek.livejournal.com]

:-( ; I have a P4 I can lend you if you only want it for a week or so? Doesn't have a sensible OS installed unless you count Linux, though, but if your disk isn't dead it might be enough?

Today's amusing hard-to-learn lesson: Neither Xine nor VLC on AMD64 can play WAV files - Xine plays white noise instead, and VLC fails to play anything at all. XMMS crashes, and noatun plays an amusing clicking noise instead.

No, kids, in order to play .WAV files under Linux, you need to use WinAmp running in VMWare.

*sobs gently into his straitjacket*

[deborah_c]

I'm hoping they'll repair it quickly; in the mean time, it's probably best to use my laptop, although it's slow and also moderately broken... The disk may or may not be dead -- that kind of problem can mean it's dying -- but in any case is in the machine, which has gone to WoC for repair. And the machine needs to run Windows for the compiler toolchain, of course :-( Thanks anyway!

Re .wav players: bah. And I say again, bah. WinAmp is also my preferred tool at the moment; MusicMatch crashes if you feed it .wav files with incomplete headers on them...

Do they make straitjackets for two?

[naranek.livejournal.com]

Fair enough :-( - it's always nice to be able to pass the hardware on to someone and tell them to deal with it, rather than having to worry about the little buggers yourself :-) - good luck with the laptop ...

If you want a UNIX build of the MPEG4 stuff, just say the word .. won't work for TI, of course, but it might help any DOS command-line woes you're having :-(.

[becky-boingy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the CPU was over heating if it was bluescreening/shutting down etc.

I had the same problem when I got my first AMD and the chip was faulty - luckily it was under warrenty and I got the chip replaced for free :)

Either that or XP-SP2 doesn't like your system - After installing SP2 my PC reboots randomly during/after using the DVD drive

[deborah_c]

Possibly. Fans all appeared to be working, though, and the machine is a few years old, so it's not an early death.

I can understand the machine objecting strenuously to XP-SP2, but if it is, it's just doing so (quite reasonably) on general principle, since it's actually running W2K... :-)