My laptop has decided to die. Again. For the third time. With the same problem. I think I demanded too much from the poor thing.
What I did, seemed to me to be quite acceptable and I thought that the laptop could handle it without frying its graphics card.
Here is what I did:
- Attach a secondary monitor (nothing too stressful yet)
- Put MSN, Firefox etc. onto the secondary monitor (childs play up to now)
- Open up ShiftWindow (alarm bells will begin ringing for those who know what this does)
- Open up Counterstrike Source (uh oh)
- Configure ShiftWindow to run Counterstrike Source in a window, covering the whole of the laptop primary monitor (this program is amazing; because normally if CSS is run in a window and you click on anything on the secondary monitor, then it minimizes even there is no need to; this program stops this VERY annoying problem)
- Play Counterstrike Source, and when dead answer the weirdos who decide to talk to me on MSN and check mail
So now I am in the predicament of deciding whether to get it repaired again just for the same thing to happen, or get some sort of replacement.