I’m going on holiday tomorrow! I leave at 8am for the airport and my flight’s just before noon. I can’t wait! I think I have everything I’ll need packed, just a few things to stick in my case tomorrow morning like my wash bag and another towel. Knowing me I’ll be rushing around like a headless chicken in the morning suddenly remembering things I need to pack.

Last night my computer died… I’m not sure what the hell happened but I started to get a whole load of garbled graphics then everything froze. 10 seconds later my monitor switched into power save. Without being able to see my desktop any more, and not knowing if the PC had locked up or not, I had to flick the power switch on the back of my PSU to turn the computer off.

To check that it wasn’t my KVM I plugged the screen and keyboard into my PC directly and turned it on again. I didn’t even get as far as the desktop, it crashed on the XP logo during boot up.

I think that my video card has died. It doesn’t look to me like it could be the monitor, as the computer should still work if the screen goes kaput. This is terrible timing, I’m going to be on holiday for the next 2 weeks and it’ll be sitting there waiting for me to get home and fix it. I really didn’t want to have to buy a brand new card until my next major upgrade – especially since my PC uses AGP and my next PC would have PCI-Express which replaces it.

Oh well… I’ll have to wait 2 weeks and check my video card properly. *sigh*