I got my computer back today. I got a Asus EAX-1050 graphics card from a local shop in Congelton. It is quite low powered, but should do me for a few months. I can’t afford a brilliant card at the moment, but I was contemplating getting a good laptop to replace the desktop in a [...]

My old faithful graphics card has finally given up. I started playing X3 today and it just crashed. When I tried to restart I was met with a screen full of ASCII characters. Looks like a quick trip to a local shop might be in order. Pity as the XFX 6600 GT I was running [...]

I was just thinking the other day that my computer was running fine, and I hadn’t needed to re-install it for at least 6 months. However, I think I might have thought too soon as when I got home on Thursday it was acting very odd. For some reason it wouldn’t allow me to paste [...]

I have finally got the computer up an running. I had to get a 160 gig hard disc from ebuyer.co.uk, but it now works as good as new. What is a pain is that I haven´t managed to save all of my files. My FreeNAS server is doing well and keeping backups of all of [...]

I was sitting in front of my computer today when it died. It has been acting funny for a few days but tonight I was watching an online video when the hard disc failed. The computer turned itself off, and when I tried to start it again all it could manage was a "critical disc [...]