Tuesday, September 10, 2013

MotherBoard Diaries

BSOD, an acronym that's given me a lot of head ache ever since I knew about it. For those who aren't familiar with this, it means blue screen of death, a blue screen that is generated by windows due to some error. The system has to be restarted to use again.

BSOD has plagued my system at home for as long as 4 months. 4 months of frequent blue screen while trying to use a computer can freak any sane soul out. So the least said about me the better! From my part the best that I could do was to turn the desktop background colour to deep blue same as the colour of BSOD just to acclimatize myself to sudden bsod attacks.

Long story short, the repairing started with a HDD change, it then moved on to a full system service and format, a RAM change until finally the technician was driven crazy. Ultimately the motherboard was opened and worked upon and my relation with BSOD was unceremoniously cut off. BSOD attacked my system once again but left it unscathed.

PS: My relationship with BSOD rekindled at work when multiple systems were attacked by BSOD. All I could do was G-R-I-N seeing colleagues struggling with it.