Machine update
Jun. 7th, 2011 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserWell, by hook or by crook, I'm getting my machine home today.
I brought it in for a noisy fan. It was dusty as hell when I pulled it out from under my desk, so I expected it to just need the fans/inside cleaned. (yeah, usually I could try to do it myself, but I had the Groupon.) I called them today for an update, and apparently my graphics card is failing. My graphics have been 100% fine up until this point, the fan noise just kicked in when WoW (and only WoW) had been running for a while. He said if I don't get the card fixed, he expected it to die soon. He's doing tests to see if the motherboard is failing, too.
So I could:
1) Let them change the graphics card (cost of card, labor). On the plus side, it would be an upgrade.
(Edit: 1a) Card and motherboard too, if he says it needs it.)
2) Just take my machine and use it until the card dies (if it does).
You people who know more about this hardware stuff, what do you think? He says my graphics card is dying on his tests, but that it works perfectly fine seems odd to me...
Last night I realized another flaw of my not having my machine: I hadn't expected it to be out of my control for so long, all my passwords are in place, people at the shop could log in to PayPal or any number of other sites -- not to mention see this post/my LJ, as the link to it as on the top of my homepage. Blah!
Either way, tonight I shall have my machine back!
I brought it in for a noisy fan. It was dusty as hell when I pulled it out from under my desk, so I expected it to just need the fans/inside cleaned. (yeah, usually I could try to do it myself, but I had the Groupon.) I called them today for an update, and apparently my graphics card is failing. My graphics have been 100% fine up until this point, the fan noise just kicked in when WoW (and only WoW) had been running for a while. He said if I don't get the card fixed, he expected it to die soon. He's doing tests to see if the motherboard is failing, too.
So I could:
1) Let them change the graphics card (cost of card, labor). On the plus side, it would be an upgrade.
(Edit: 1a) Card and motherboard too, if he says it needs it.)
2) Just take my machine and use it until the card dies (if it does).
You people who know more about this hardware stuff, what do you think? He says my graphics card is dying on his tests, but that it works perfectly fine seems odd to me...
Last night I realized another flaw of my not having my machine: I hadn't expected it to be out of my control for so long, all my passwords are in place, people at the shop could log in to PayPal or any number of other sites -- not to mention see this post/my LJ, as the link to it as on the top of my homepage. Blah!
Either way, tonight I shall have my machine back!
