I’m sure I’m developing a talent to break computers just by looking at them wrong. Two computers breaking on me in a day is pretty good going, surely?

Tuesday of this week was sooo not a good day for me as far as computers go. First one computer breaks on me at uni and then my desktop at home decides it wanted to go play dead as well.

The uni computer that decided to go meet its maker is one used to run a piece of equipment called a Differential Scanning Calorimeter in one of the bioscience labs at Brum Uni. It decided to post a nice little error message of “There is not enough memory to load the registry or the registry is corrupt” on every restart. This machine is still running Windows 95 (what it is about me needing to use computers that have to run Windows 95 is another rant), so there some lulz there. So far o-one can decide if it’s just the registry that is corrupt or if there is actually a problem with the hardware.

The outcome of that little (:P) problem is unresolved at the moment, the reasoning is that “they’re worried about it being a serious problem with the computer being so old”.

So as I couldn’t get any work done at uni, I decided that going home to do some work on my desktop would be more productive than staying at uni. Heh, so much for that one. My desktop decided that it would keep crashing as soon as it had loaded into windows. At least with my desktop, I am allowed to fiddle with it (unlike uni computers which need IT technicians to play with them). Seems that my problem there was a loose CPU fan, which I’m happy to say is now fixed (fingers crossed).

So yeah, I’m glad this week is over.