Cracked
Got my new PC up and running etc fine last week, and decided to test out how it worked and performed with DX10 Games, so i installed COD4 and started playing. All of a sudden, i get a BSOD and it reboots. Strange, so i did it again, and again got a BSOD, this time catching the name “IRQL_not less or equal”. I asked around and apparently this is a memory issue, related to bad RAM. Obviously this error only happens when the PC is executing very RAM intensive operations, such as COD4, but still it was annoying!
I took out the RAM to have a look, after spending 2 hours panicking that the PSU might not be powerful enough and that i’d just wasted £65. It turns out there is a tiny crack in one of the sticks of RAM from where i must have caught it with the scissors when building it, which has obviously damaged a trace in the RAM stick itself. I took out the stick in question, and voila the PC works beautifully, although 1 GB down 
Aside from diagnosing, i havent done much else! Fran came back from skiing Saturday night so i met her at Intel off the coach and spent Saturday and Sunday night with her, even had her and her housemates cooking me sunday dinner which was nice! lol 
The rest of the week has been business as usual, working 9-5.30pm and then chilling out at night, nothing interesting at all, yawn. We went out for a curry last Thursday to the Khyber with those who didnt go skiing; Toma, Jamal, Gibbons, Brad, Jules, Adjei etc. had a good laugh, although town was absolutely dead – according to the bouncers January is always a quiet month, so i dont think im going to bother heading out until after payday!