Computing problems come in 00000011s
Apr. 13th, 2011 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charameiFriday before last: Office break-in at work. Most laptops, some Macs stolen.
This Monday: New laptops arrive, spend all day setting them up. Everything's working fine except they won't connect to the office WiFi. I am baffled. So is my boss.
Tuesday: More ineffectual prodding at the WiFi. Spend two hours on the phone with Dell's tech support. They are also baffled.
Today: Boss gives up, gets another router out of storage and I spend all morning* setting up a temporary connection for just these six laptops.
*Mostly due to my own lack of knowledge about how to set up WiFi, as I've never done it before. At least one of those hours was spent trying to debug 'Your Ethernet cables are in the wrong holes'.
This evening: get home, boot Oblivion. Oblivion bluescreens twice: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP 0x0000007f. Most likely cause is corrupt RAM, according to Google.
Ah, well. At least stage 1 of this debug is 'Play Sims 2 to thrash the memory, then try to find some way to thrash it on Linux as well', as I'm not convinced it is a hardware problem. (And if it is, I'm reasonably certain the computer's still under warranty as it's only a month old.)
ETA: Oh, goody, Sims 2 crashed while unloading from memory. This is the sound of me not being a happy bunny. I'll test through Mint tomorrow...
This Monday: New laptops arrive, spend all day setting them up. Everything's working fine except they won't connect to the office WiFi. I am baffled. So is my boss.
Tuesday: More ineffectual prodding at the WiFi. Spend two hours on the phone with Dell's tech support. They are also baffled.
Today: Boss gives up, gets another router out of storage and I spend all morning* setting up a temporary connection for just these six laptops.
*Mostly due to my own lack of knowledge about how to set up WiFi, as I've never done it before. At least one of those hours was spent trying to debug 'Your Ethernet cables are in the wrong holes'.
This evening: get home, boot Oblivion. Oblivion bluescreens twice: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP 0x0000007f. Most likely cause is corrupt RAM, according to Google.
Ah, well. At least stage 1 of this debug is 'Play Sims 2 to thrash the memory, then try to find some way to thrash it on Linux as well', as I'm not convinced it is a hardware problem. (And if it is, I'm reasonably certain the computer's still under warranty as it's only a month old.)
ETA: Oh, goody, Sims 2 crashed while unloading from memory. This is the sound of me not being a happy bunny. I'll test through Mint tomorrow...