Speed vs. Stability...
Jan. 17th, 2006 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThe beautiful new laptop (monikered "Kusanagi") that Omaha bought me for Yule is going back to the dealers. There's either a problem with the video card or a short on the motherboard; either way, the box is way too unstable for me to use it reliably. I've done everything I can; locked the interrupts, switched video card interfaces, activated the shadow frame buffer register (which supposedly "works around" the video card lockup), and instituted on-demand CPU frequency control so that the box runs cooler when on battery power. Nothing seems to help, the lockups continue completely at random and have nothing to do with heat: it happens when the box is cool, it happens when I'm in console mode.
I could stand it if it were once a week or so, but not every day. It's sad; Kusanagi is arguably six times faster than Lain ever was, but if I can't rely on it back to the shop it goes.
I could stand it if it were once a week or so, but not every day. It's sad; Kusanagi is arguably six times faster than Lain ever was, but if I can't rely on it back to the shop it goes.
