My computer is starting to scare me

[guanin]

The screen keeps blinking green for half a second. It just got stuck on me in some weird pattern I'd never seen before and it wouldn't even go into hibernation when I pressed the ON button, which is what it always does. I took the battery out, restarted it in safe mode, then in regular mode, but it keeps doing that. It's never done this before. Dammit, I don't have a backup computer if this goes to hell (unlike my dad, who has three, but he is a technology junkie and a longtime job. I used to find it a bit silly, but not anymore). Am I going to have to ask the HP people about this? Because no one ever knows what the hell I'm asking no matter how plainly I explain it to them until the fourth technician.

Comments

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I hope you're able to fix it soon.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping it'll just go away. I just did a full system scan for viruses and the program found nothing, so it's probably the computer being crazy. Not that that's any better.

[drakochi.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's your graphic card that is going bad... Hum...broken material might be worse than a visus, broken hardware is a pain in the bum.

I had to replace my fan and my hard drive this fall, the thing you learn while doing that!

I hope it is just a phase though, sometimes this stuff goes away. *shrugs*

[guanin.livejournal.com]

It's not like a constant thing. More like three or four times. Sometimes weird stuff does go away, so I'm waiting to see what it does today.

Ugh, that sucks. I haven't had to replace stuff yet on any computer, but this one is only a year old! And it's HP, which my computer savvy nephew swears by.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Yikes, yeah, that is very nervous-making. I'd say if it doesn't go away soon, get a move on telling someone about it. You don't want to be stranded without a computer.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

yeah. I'm waiting to see what it does today. I hope it doesn't come back.