I should know better than to expect nice things by now

[ultranos]

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.

Comments

[holdouttrout]

Aw. I'm sorry, and I hope it can be fixed pronto.

[ultranos]

I hope so too! I don't have anything else to really do work on. Unless I work from home. So this is kind of irritating.