{"id":1094,"date":"2008-06-06T03:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T03:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2008-06-06T03:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T03:18:33","slug":"only-saw-the-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Only Saw The Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/crashforce2.jpg\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all seen this if you disable Auto Restart on fatal error in Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/crashforce1.jpg\"><br \/>\nBut have you seen this? In the BIOS screen?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/crashforce3.jpg\"><br \/>\nOr this?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, my display card was screwed. Out with the old <b>Sparkle Geforce 6600 GT 128MB AGP card<\/b>, in with the (not so new) <b>Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB GDDR3 AGP card<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>(Strangely, the Blue Screen Of Death appears in a screen mode that is compatible with even a screwed display card.) I&#8217;ve gotta macro the old display card because it&#8217;s pretty, but that will come later.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m that out of touch with modern technology, still lugging behind with a single-core AMD Barton XP 2600+ and an AGP 8x slot. Well, whatever works. Kinda explains why I didn&#8217;t update just after the 10th of May 2008 which is when this happened.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done the regular benchmarks, but well, I could&#8217;ve settled for a side-grade or a downgrade but picked something more DirectX friendly. And thus proved the irony that I&#8217;d always alternate between ATI Radeon and NVidia GeForce cards. Always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all seen this if you disable Auto Restart on fatal error in Windows XP. But have you seen this? In the BIOS screen? Or this? Yep, my display card was screwed. Out with the old Sparkle Geforce 6600 GT 128MB AGP card, in with the (not so new) Sapphire ATI Radeon HD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}