Video card died,
Death to XP laptop friend.
Upgrade to Vista?
My former laptop went into retirement last night. She was slow, but functional…until yesterday. I’ve seen computers with the “blue screen of death,” but this was a yellow screen, a lovely shade of buttercup. Nice on a wall, perhaps. Not so good on a refurbished laptop. So now I’m using a “newer” refurbished computer, and by newer I mean 7 years old instead of 10. No complaints from me! As long as hubby’s willing to Frankenstein computers together, I still have a machine that will get me on the Internet. My laptop’s not old, it’s vintage!
*Writing 201
JULI HOFFMAN 
It’s so cute and funny! I always used my hubby’s old machine too! 😀 So glad we are in the same course! Yippee! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you! I just signed up for a couple more WP courses in November, Blogging 201 and another round of Writing 101. Blogging U has been a lot of fun!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Really?! Ok, will check that out as well. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Blogging 201 is supposed to explore some HTML basics. Since I know NOTHING about HTML, this might be a good way to learn.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great! I want to learn too! Going to sign up now! 😀 Thanks a lot!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome! Fun to know someone else in the class. 🙂 I feel like a kid again! LOL
LikeLiked by 1 person
Me too! Back to school! Gotta start packing my school bag! Haha! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL I need more crayons and #2 pencils! ha! ha!
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL 😄
LikeLiked by 1 person
Going thru the same pains….;/ Hope am able to post one with my mobile..;] Of all the days!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sad! I hate it when technology goes south. It always happens at the worst possible times.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Update to Vista? Is that computer too old to update to W7?
LikeLiked by 1 person
The newer laptop “might” be able to run W7, but hubby said something about registration/licencing? I don’t know. He buys non-working Dell laptops in “lots” for VERY little money and Frankenstein’s them back together. It’s a hobby of his. He can usually cobble together a couple of working computers if he has enough broken ones. It’s a cheap way to keep us in computers. I don’t need anything fancy. I’m not a gamer. I don’t save a bunch of stuff on my hard drive, so even my old XP ran faster than the computers at work, even with multiple tabs opened. I know a lot of people ran out and bought new computers when MS stopped supporting XP, but my old girl worked fine until the video card died. I use a different, older computer JUST for writing. I don’t allow it to connect to the Internet. Years ago, I had a computer catch a virus that screwed up all of my writing files. Thank goodness I save backups of my backups, but still… Now I just keep a separate computer for writing and save EVERYTHING onto a couple of external drives. I keep my machines clean, so if I DO need to reformat them, or they crap out on me, there’s nothing on them to lose. Plus, ANY computer runs soooo much faster if you keep the bare minimum on it, even if it is on the older side, like tenish years old. LOL
LikeLike
Have a good rest laptop, say hello to my laptoppie friend for me, *sniff* When you a thing for lonh and it served you well, it becomes your friend.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah…I tend to name my cars, laptops, etc. *Sniff* This last laptop was highly decorated, too! Stickers from places we’d traveled to, slapped on haphazardly. We had some good times together. 😉
LikeLike
aww, take heart and courage.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yellow is a scary color for a computer screen….
LikeLike
Umm…yeah. It’s not good.
LikeLike