The Chit-Chat Thread

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

Well my laptop has died (again) so I'm slowly writing this on my phone.
My laptop has been faffing around lately whenever I do something remotely graphicky (games, videos, youtube) and would often freeze.
Now it turns on, the LCD is fine, I can hear the windows sound going dodoododoo but no image. I called Dell and it took them 2 hours to realise that what I was saying was the problem was right.
They're sending a tech on Monday.

So yeah, I haven't flown off to vgf-forumsiscock.com.


PS - the mobile site for the forums looks very nice on my phone

Graphics card is blown I am guessing.
Good luck with that. It can get pricy.

Yeah well I thought that as well, but not Dell ! I told them I thought it was the GPU that was dead but nope, I had to faff around with some RAM and then click on this and that. In their defense, they've got to troubleshoot because switching the motherboard (to which the GPU is attached) must be quite expensive for them.
Thankfully, I'm under guarantee. I originally had my guarantee for four years but since my motherboard had already died twice before, I thought it best to extend it by a year. Now I'm getting my money's worth !

I just found out that one of the posters on GameFAQ's passed away. What's sad was me and him had a lot in common when it came to TV shows. So I was always communicating with him.

It's so sad. :'(

That sucks :( Was he young ?