Hit it daaaaamn hard
A new fault seems to have emerged from the fray, yet again for no apparent reason; the laptop now keeps randomly freezing, resulting in no onscreen responce (except skittish mouse-cursor responce) and a complete freeze in the sound coming from Winamp3..and that strange buzzing coming from the right side of the laptop.
The strangest thing, the moment I give the laptop a good hard thwack, it immediately works again.
Just now, it happened again, and when I thwacked it, I swear to [insert deity here], I heard a screach come from the laptop casing!
I'm shutting down before anything unrecoverable happens. Night.
The war on..
This buzzing sound every now again gives me this gutteral "Oh christ" response, and makes me suspect that some little insect (i.e. ants), or bastard arachnid, had something to do with my laptop problems.
Appearing to have no performance problems now, but ordering the new RAM has overdrawn the Switch card, bloody expensive Sony custom memory. If I get a laptop in future, remind me not to go with a brand, unless that brand is Apple, which after recent PC/MS-centric problems, I'm very tempted to migrate to, wouldn't solve the expensiveness of it all, but at least I'd get some sense of reliability, even if it's a false sense!
One of those days
Just had yet another battle with Random Laptop Failure Syndrome.
Over night my laptop decided to crash to a black screen with just a cursor, and from there things just got worse; after rebooting the system ran at worse than a snails pace, and during an attempted virus scan (just in case something had managed to infect the system) I got a BSoD in time honoured fashion!
A system restore seems to have fixed things (I'm still reeling from having a creation of Microsoft's work properly), but everything still seems to be running just a little slower than usual (not as bad as before, but a noticeable), I thought this was just me being paranoid and imagining it until Zone Alarm Pro decided to tell me it was waiting too long for the True Vector Monitoring component to load, which during normal system runtime never happens.
Also, in the same process, the extra 256MB RAM stick decided it wouldn't work any longer, so I've had to order an expensive replacement for that as well.
Jooooooooooy...