The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

I’m struggling with the dreaded BSOD at the moment. It seems to have struck my faithful lappy like a bad dose of salts these past few weeks. This is all very unsettling of course. I had a machine I’d come to rely upon totally, I use it every day for hours and hours – for everything – writing, comms, news, shopping, paying bills, gleaning obscure information, and it did it all faultlessly, but suddenly it’s gone all wobbly. It takes ten minutes to boot up now and I’m afraid of firing up any of my programs because it might just,….

…. conk out on me mid sentence again and require another ten minute reboot just to get it all back up. I’ve spent all day struggling with it so far and I’m getting a bit tired of it now. I don’t know if it’s the hard drive that’s fried and becoming intermittently dodgy, or if it’s a software fault – I’ve had one Windows update after another today and things do seem a bit more stable but the machine’s terribly slow now, taking an age to register e..v.. e.. n.. t..h..e..s..e.. w..o..r..d..s.. as they’re typed in.

I don’t fancy loading up any writing projects at the moment. I could type in half an hour’s worth of stuff and then lose it all. It’s distracting, annoying, and of course just one of those things that will be overcome eventually.