"Aisha, I'm confused... Aisha, I'm vibrating!"
". . . the concussion puts him into a state of shock so profound as to seperate mind from body entirely; for several hours afterwards, his body goes around doing things without his telling it to. Stripped of its connections to the physical world, his mind runs in circles like an engine that has sheared its driveshaft and is screaming along at full throttle, doing no useful work while burning itself up."
-- Cryptonomicon (p. 556)
Sounds eerily familiar.
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Oblique Strategies -- Brian Eno's analogue of the I-Ching.
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Something is very wrong with both my PC and my laptop. On the laptop, I've been periodically getting the BSoD in WinXP (sic) informing me that the physical memory is being dumped just before the machine reboots itself. Normally I'd just haul it in to the FutureShop dicks, but it's a very hard bug to demonstrate because it strikes seemingly at random. After flashing the BIOS and checking the drivers, I talked to Andrew and he said that the only time he's encountered this problem it was due to a bad hard drive (his theory is that something tries to write to a bad sector, then XP gets confused and spazzes out); I've run a chkdsk/scandisk on the hard drive which repaired some errors, so we'll see how that goes. On the PC, I don't even get the courtesy of a bluescreen -- it just reboots itself, which could be a lot of things but sounds like either the CPU overheating, or the RAM or power supply going kaput. Investigation is ongoing...
[edit] After lengthy diagnostics, we have eliminated the RAM as a suspect.
-- Cryptonomicon (p. 556)
Sounds eerily familiar.
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Oblique Strategies -- Brian Eno's analogue of the I-Ching.
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Something is very wrong with both my PC and my laptop. On the laptop, I've been periodically getting the BSoD in WinXP (sic) informing me that the physical memory is being dumped just before the machine reboots itself. Normally I'd just haul it in to the FutureShop dicks, but it's a very hard bug to demonstrate because it strikes seemingly at random. After flashing the BIOS and checking the drivers, I talked to Andrew and he said that the only time he's encountered this problem it was due to a bad hard drive (his theory is that something tries to write to a bad sector, then XP gets confused and spazzes out); I've run a chkdsk/scandisk on the hard drive which repaired some errors, so we'll see how that goes. On the PC, I don't even get the courtesy of a bluescreen -- it just reboots itself, which could be a lot of things but sounds like either the CPU overheating, or the RAM or power supply going kaput. Investigation is ongoing...
[edit] After lengthy diagnostics, we have eliminated the RAM as a suspect.