I want Jarvis!

I hate computers.

Early last month I started getting random shutdowns. Just in the middle of anything or nothing my laptop would just shut off, no warning, no nothing. Booting it back up would work for a few minutes and then the same would happen again. It was taking about an hour of rest to bring it back up for any longer time than a couple of minutes.

So I got that figured out somewhat. It was overheating. The left-hand side was getting so hot that I couldn't hold my hand against it for very long. I propped the back up on these two pegs I found about an inch high and put a small electric fan near it blowing across the back of the keyboard. This worked somewhat but I was always in a breeze and wearing flannel in the house in the middle of the summer was too much. It would still shut down after several hours of work.

And then the Error happened.

I was working along, saving at the end of every sentence or spreadsheet line and BOOM! Blue Screen of Death and the Error "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA".

I think I tried every solution on the first two pages of solutions in Google and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt/nothing.

I had a 5-6 minute window of workability once I saw the system tray clock before it cycled through the BSOD and tried to boot up again. And trying to do anything was like teaching a toddler to operate it, numbingly slow, numbingly frustrating.

I borrowed my daughter's laptop when she was asleep but I kept it strictly business and focused websearching for fixes. I didn't want anything to happen to her computer so no porn stuff.

Usually I'd have them both on the sofa working on trying to understand a fix and implementing it in safe mode, if I could. Safe mode seemed to work in the sense it didn't reboot over and over but I couldn't really do anything in it.

We put in a call to our family computer guru but he was out of town for two weeks. We thought about taking it to Worst Buy but I really wanted to wait until said guru could take a look at things. "Free" helped in that wanting to wait as well.

He finally came over last weekend and within ten minutes had it fixed. He also took the back off and detached some (insert technobabble here) near the fan and blew a huge gob of dust out and now it runs so cool as to not even radiate any heat compared to the inferno of before.

I've got several weeks of spreadsheets to go over and consolidate/collate and other things to catch up on that are home/financial related that I actually use this laptop for during the daytime. It's not all sex sex sex!

Tonight is the first period of time I've had free to get you guys up to speed on this and for that I apologize. Thanks for the concerned notes and patience.

I don't have a new story in the pipeline obviously. But give me a bit and I'll come up with something entertaining I hope.

It's nearly 1 in the a.m. and I need to get some sleep.

Go S.H.I.E.L.D.!

Kara