Cthulhu fhtagn.
My laptop, Cthulhu, is, alas, dreaming. In my laptop bag currently, not quite as grand as his sunken city of R'lyeh, but it'll have to do for now.
On Friday (February the 26th), there was a graphical glitch in the morning. After using it for a while, the screen flickered and distorted, and black vertical bars appeared on the screen. The laptop was then completely frozen (graphically, at least). So, I did the first thing that came to mind: leave it and see if it goes away.
Later in the day, the same thing happened again, again shortly after turning it on. This time, I tried it with an external monitor to see if it was a problem with the LCD, but unfortunately it wasn't. So I took it apart to see if anything was overheating, but there was barely any dust in it. I tried booting into different OSes, to check if it was a software problem but, alas, no. Every time I booted, it happened a little sooner.
And now it happens more or less immediately after booting, it's a hardware problem, and the graphics are built-in to the motherboard, so I'd need to get a new motherboard to fix it. In a great departure from tradition, I've opted to build myself a desktop rather than spend a fortune on a new laptop.
This new desktop rising from the ashes of Cthulhu, shall be named... Azathoth!
