EDIT: Added links to the last paragraph.
I've been trying to fix my parents' desktop this last week. While playing games that stress the graphics card, the screen will occasionally fill with artifacts (it looks like a woven pattern), which makes it rather unusable. VRAM tests show nothing, GPU stress tests don't cause it, and underclocking and ramping up the cooling fan doesn't prevent it.
Still, I'm pretty sure it's the video card. I got a new card for my PC for Christmas last year and swapped my old graphics card into my parents' computer. The PCI-E power adapter that came with the new card didn't fit very well, apparently, because the OS told me the card didn't have sufficient power. Also, crackling may have been involved.
My dad likes to play Flight Simulator X, so I plan on replacing the card, since I broke it. At least they're cheap nowadays.
It was a busy weekend in more social ways, too. Alex, Matt, Scott and I went to the NC Zoo on Saturday, had a Memorial Day cookout on Sunday, and went to the Raleigh Museum of Natural Sciences with Erin and Evan today. In brief: way too crowded, fun but shorter than usual, and nice, respectively.
Expanded thoughts on the zoo: there were TONS of young families there, by which I mean both in the sense that the kids were young and that the parents were young. It was a little alarming, honestly, for so many people of roughly my age to be running about with children or pregnancies. No one gets used to getting older.
I saw a friend from college at the zoo (Diana), which was nice, because Alex always meets people she knows and I never meet people I know. The odds were pretty good that one of us would see someone we knew. The crowds were awful.
We got to see the swim dogs and miniature swim dog, though, so it was a successful zoo visit.
By my hand,
~Michael Akerman
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