Digital Strawberry Girl

A girl-geek's brain dump (Chris Hart's blog)
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January 2007 Entries

Vista ate my graphics card

You may recall how I commented on how hot my system has been getting while running Vista. Well, shortly before Christmas, it all proved to be a little too much for my Radeon 9800 Pro, which coughed, spluttered, and finally died a death from overheating. I'm now running with the on-board Intel 82865G chip in Vista basic mode - I lose all the pretty transparency, but the core temperature has dropped to acceptable levels and I no longer have to worry about Nathan burning his hands on the case. And to be honest, I really don't care whether the title...

posted @ Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:07 PM | Feedback (1)

Still not moved

Well, we've still not moved house, thank mainly to an impossibly long chain with far too many incompetent people who don't seem to realise that many other families are waiting for them to get themselves sorted out so we can move. The hold up is still with the bottom end of the chain, which means that everyone else in the chain is stuck waiting for them to finish. I'm getting worried that links further up the chain will start falling apart at this rate, so fingers crossed we'll be moving sooner rather than later. In the meantime, Nathan's starting to master...

posted @ Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:39 PM | Feedback (0)

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