That’s a photo I took on Sunday. It was a great day, it was. A lot of snow. I just haven’t bothered to fire up the computer to check the pictures I took until last night… when I installed the new 1 GB memory that I had managed to swap for 2×512 MB. That should fix it, right? Two memory banks, which support up to 1 GB memory each. Wrong. The computer was kind enough to instantly recognise the new memory, but then it crashed. So I restarted, and it crashed straight away again. So I removed the old 512 MB and tried with only the new 1 GB. Startup, and crash. Restart, and crash. I tested the memory at work and it was fine.
Today I managed to swap back the memory so now my computer is happily running with 2×512 MB RAM, back to where I started. Plus that I have a brand new 512 MB module to sell. Any upgrades I want to do on this computer, I will have to start with the motherboard.
Coincidentally, a Dell technician should come around tomorrow to replace the faulty motherboard on my work laptop. Imagine, until a few weeks ago, I had never had any motherboard related problems with any of my computers. The floodgates are open…