It is officially summer break for me!  I finished up my last final yesterday and my fingers are crossed that my 4.0 gpa will escape this semester unscathed.  I was really looking forward to enjoying the first day of summer yesterday when all of a sudden, while on my desktop, my computer froze up and weird pixels appeared on the screen.  They were mostly blue and in a horizontal checkered pattern.  I remained calm (mostly) and had to do a hard reset.   This happened to me the previous night as well … or something similar anyway.  I was on a Fortress Siege – a really, really laggy one – and my computer locked up after the screen had weird artifacts and my audio was looping.  I wasn’t too concerned about the initial lockup because I figured it was just the result of overheating or something.

Well, when I booted up my computer after yesterday’s first lockup I spent about five minutes browsing the internet and it locked up again.  This time when I hard reset, all of the text and numbers you see while your computer boots up were gibberish, garbled, and resembled the matrix.  Blue ribbons and wavy lines were everywhere and when my computer finally reached the desktop it was at a basic resolution and barely usable because of all the distortions.

My comp had 2 8800gt 512mb cards in SLI.  I removed them one at a time and tested both of them to see if one had fried or something.  Sure enough the primary card was toast but the second card works great.  What a way to begin the first few hours of summer.  I’m bummed that I don’t have two cards anymore, and I’m not really inclined to go out and buy another when I can just use one card for a while and then upgrade to a better card later.  I tested my FPS in CoD4 and noticed I dropped from 91 constant frames to about 65-71 frames – huge drop there but not too noticeable.   TF2 runs the same.  WAR runs the same (at least while running around IC).  I’m hoping Aion runs as smooth as it did last test.

I hope this isn’t a sign of what’s to come for the rest of summer.

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