blue screen of death

I just saw the "blue screen of death", twice

Tim told me the lab conference room is available. So I went to see the environment and did a final run of the new webcam. I borrowed this fancy, high-end webcam from Sara. It can adjust the camera position through a software interface. It can also adjust the brightness and many other stuff. The software took a while to load. And when it finally installed and worked, bang! the computer gave me the blue screen of death.

I cannot remember the last time I saw one... back in 1999? when computer memory was still expensive. I restarted the laptop and reconnected the webcam. Bang! Blue screen of death again. Twice in a row.

Now I think it is the perfect time to get panic.

I uninstalled all the fancy stuff. Re-installed the not-so-fancy webcam of my own. Let me get my fingers crossed. This laptop is not bad at all, a little old, 3.5 years? but it is a Pentium 4. The only problem is it has only 512 MB of RAM. Video conferencing is quite demanding on the computer ram, video adaptor, etc. I hope this "old" computer and hold up!

We will see. Being panic does not help. Take a deep breath. Smile.