Woe is me.
My computer went into a coma last night. I was lying on my bed minding my own business when suddenly the screen goes grey with a few flickering purple bars on the left side. WTF is this? I thought the screen had gone whacko, like it has a couple of times when the monitor just shows these multicolored bars flickering around, but that only happens on the few occasions that the computer boots up from a hybernating state. When I turn it on or when it's roused back from sleep mode, The monitor works fine. But this was different. Usually when my screen goes whacko I close up the lid and open it back again, and problem fixed. This time the weird grey screen remained there even when I opened and closed it. ...Keep reading.
