After arguing with my husband for four months about whether or not my computer was dying, I finally win…..the hard way. Every so often, I would turn on the poor thing, and would get “The Blue Screen of Death”. Usually, either he or my son could figure out what was causing it, and could construct a workaround. A couple of times, the only thing we could do was peform a rollback. I also had at least one fan that was running loud upon startup. The computer did that a couple of weeks after I bought it, and Dell had to replace the CPU.
Two days ago, I got both, the BSoD and the Fan in overdrive. And, no, I did NOT overclock my computer, even though I am an MMORPG player. This time, nothing anyone could do would recover the system from either one.
So, even though the computer is only 3 years old, I am dumping it, rather than getting it repaired for what would be the third time in its history. Enough is enough. The XPS Gen 3, Dell’s first attempt at a gaming computer, was NOT a good model. I am not that much of a World of Warcraft player anymore anyway.
Maybe I will be able to upload photos to my blog, my Yahoo groups, etc with my new computer. They have been disappearing into the ether on Compy. (Calling it Compy is my nod to www.homestarrunner.com. Visit that site for a rediculous time.)
