My laptop has been bluescreening (BSOD-ing) for about 2-months, now. I have a hunch it’s related to sleep settings, or some aspect of a power shift that is broken: from power to sleep, battery to sleep, or falling asleep all by itself. Any change in the cached memory that isn’t finalized by a full shutdown is intensely discouraged by my machine. But who has time to fix it?
And so, I swear at this laptop, almost every time it happens some profanity rolls out of my mouth. Then, I hold in the power button, feel the CPUs rest before powering to full throttle. I sip my coffee angrily. Welcome to Windows, I’m back in action! Outlook here, Skype there, log into Dashlane, open up OneDrive, dismiss that Reminder… the world has returned to me in front of two screens.
In my free time I’ve installed hardware updates. I’ve even updated BIOS (which required a reboot; proof that I’ve found some time). I’ve checked with Windows – it says I’m current on patches. I’ve done brief research while sitting on hold. No avail. I’m still SOL.
And now, in these uncertain times, when I leave for the day I contemplate how important my browser windows are. Should I save my work and power down to minimize a stressful event? Or … should I try sleep mode and say goodbye to the unfinished notes and search tabs I’ve been collecting? It’s really a roll of the dice. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It usually doesn’t.
If I were my client, this would be fixed. I’d be smarter because of it; I’d know the issue and its resolution. Hell, I might even have a new laptop. But … I’m not a client. As much as I’m unamused by this persistent predicament, I assume that eventually an update will come along and fix the problem. Until then, I continue to shutdown or curse as appropriate. I’ll go barefoot.