Games related obviously.

I've had an unfortunate run the last couple of months when it comes to hardware. I bought 1 gb ram (2x512) because I couldn't find my other chips after moving (had been fooling around with the comp just before moving, so I just put the ram "in a very good place" when packing) and had been running only 512 ram. Which is just not enough as we all know.

Anyway, this ram of course had a lifetime warranty. This was good, because 1 chip instantly burned over as soon as I booted up my machine. As if this wasn't bad enough, the other one didn't work either!

Now, as the guy in the store told me when I went to return the ram, this is statistically impossible. So it had to be my fault somehow. He then told me the story of how I must have tried to force the ram down the wrong way :D

The end result, he paid me back half of the price. Anyway, I just put in the new ram (1x1024 because the slot that got burned doesn't look good) which I put in the primary of 3 slots. It runs perfectly. However, the old 512 doesn't work in the other unburned slot. So it seems I am stuck with a mobo that has only 1 ram slot.

The other bad news is that my 19" inch monitor freaked out as well, so I am stuck using (a much older yet still working) 15" one. This is of course not the ideal setup for games, nor work for that matter.

I've been planning for ages to get my hand on a combo monitor (serves at both your regular lcd computer monitor as well as a tv) but those are hard to get. Manufactors just can't keep up with the consumers. With any luck, I should get one in early Feb.

Well, that was my most recent hardware problems story, great fun eh?