This morning as I was finishing up a rigorous session of BF2 power-leveling, a goddamned transformer exploded down the street, causing a brownout(?). Just milliseconds after the explosive sound, my computer violently shut off and rebooted itself.
At first, it refused to even boot up. I kept getting stuck at the BIOS screen. Eventually I upped the cpu voltage, reset it to stock settings and got my baby running. This was the least of my problems.
I didn't even have firefox open when the ish happened but somehow, my bookmarks are all lost. Wait, it gets worse.
Battlefield 2 refuses to work. I can get it open and browse servers but once I am in one, my keyboard and mouse stop working ingame. I have to ctrl alt del to get back and force the program to close. I uninstalled and reinstalled BF2, changed drivers from 7730 to 7772 but nothing is working. It's not my video card. I can run 3dmark05 just fine still. What could the problem be?
The moral of the story? Put anything with cash, sentimental or just plain old "mental" value behind a decent UPS. Trust me, it is worth it.
What a coincedence though. This happened just two days after my father bought a $200 APC UPS for his DTR notebook and monitor.
At first, it refused to even boot up. I kept getting stuck at the BIOS screen. Eventually I upped the cpu voltage, reset it to stock settings and got my baby running. This was the least of my problems.
I didn't even have firefox open when the ish happened but somehow, my bookmarks are all lost. Wait, it gets worse.
Battlefield 2 refuses to work. I can get it open and browse servers but once I am in one, my keyboard and mouse stop working ingame. I have to ctrl alt del to get back and force the program to close. I uninstalled and reinstalled BF2, changed drivers from 7730 to 7772 but nothing is working. It's not my video card. I can run 3dmark05 just fine still. What could the problem be?
The moral of the story? Put anything with cash, sentimental or just plain old "mental" value behind a decent UPS. Trust me, it is worth it.
What a coincedence though. This happened just two days after my father bought a $200 APC UPS for his DTR notebook and monitor.