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I only had something to machine today, so I thought I'd be spending most of today staring stupidly at the internet.
Of course, Erebus (my laptop, which is the computer I do most of my work on when I'm not at home) chooses today to spontaneously kill its video card. I think. I put in hibernate last night, came to work this morning, brought it out of hibernate and was welcomed to a blank screen.
Tried rebooting.
Still blank screen.
Tried hooking it up to an external monitor.
Blank screen.
Rebooted again, hooked up to external monitor.
I think you can see where this is going.
Hell, I even shone LEDs at it to see if it was a backlight issue. Nope.
So now I'm attempting to open the thing and see if something got knocked loose. I'm thanking my past self profusely for being a silly gamer and spending the extra hundred or so bucks to get the nVidea video card, NOT an integrated graphics card. Because that means I don't need a whole new motherboard.
Of course, Erebus (my laptop, which is the computer I do most of my work on when I'm not at home) chooses today to spontaneously kill its video card. I think. I put in hibernate last night, came to work this morning, brought it out of hibernate and was welcomed to a blank screen.
Tried rebooting.
Still blank screen.
Tried hooking it up to an external monitor.
Blank screen.
Rebooted again, hooked up to external monitor.
I think you can see where this is going.
Hell, I even shone LEDs at it to see if it was a backlight issue. Nope.
So now I'm attempting to open the thing and see if something got knocked loose. I'm thanking my past self profusely for being a silly gamer and spending the extra hundred or so bucks to get the nVidea video card, NOT an integrated graphics card. Because that means I don't need a whole new motherboard.
