After dealing with weeks of computer issues I am finally back online with a stable computer. First it was my video card dying. That I dealt with fairly well, but the lowered graphics on my computer make some things not in the cards to do right now. Next I started dealing with increasing BSODs (Blue Screen of Death). I got to spend my New Year's Eve reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows. No big deal since I had my really important files backed up. The computer seemed to work ok for a couple of days, then it started again.
After much hair pulling and virus scanning, I ran the memory test program (which I had done several times) only to finally be told that I had a hardware problem. One of my RAM sticks died and was probably causing the problems from the beginning but never tested bad.
Got lucky and pulled the correct stick out on the first try and viola the computer now works and no BSODs since pulling the bad RAM.
So, how was the end of 2010/beginning of 2011 for you?
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