Computer Woes

[lsanderson]

Last Thursday or so, my desktop threw a memory error after I started it up for the day. Then it threw the same error again., so I went into the BIOS and randomly checked and unchecked things as I'm wont to do, and found a trigger for automatic overclocking, and had the brilliant idea of engaging that from the BIOS rather than the usual software application that I use. So up comes Windows, up comes the memory error, and down goes the motherboard.On, off, on, off, on, off, no motherboard boot sequence. Being late for work as usual at that point, I just fired up the netbook, hooked up the big monitor to it, and carried on. Friday came and went on the Netbook. Ditto for Saturday when I noticed my main email account was overflowing with SPAM. After clearing that up, and waiting until noon on Sunday, I gave in, took off the side panel on the desktop, punched the memory button which is supposed to tune the motherboard for almost every flavor of memory out there that fits in the slots, and off it booted. I didn't have to doodle with the three other motherboard troubleshooting switches. WooT!