I put a lot of thought into what I was going to get people for Christmas and for my sister, I decided to get her some extra RAM, since she’s always moaning about her laptop being slightly on the slow side.
Also, it would be funny to watch her open up that particular present and see the look on her face while she tries to figure out WTF it might be.

But. She ruined it. Her laptop died. Basically, the colours had managed to invert themselves and you couldn’t access Windows at all – not even in any of the Safe Modes. I reinstalled Windows and installed some software which inverted the colours back (until I could figure out the problem and fix it). I went to connect it to the internet via our LAN connection but although it would recognise and connect to the network, it wouldn’t take a blind bit of notice of the internet.
I restarted it to enter the BIOS to see if I can fix that little colour issue and it appears that BIOS has buggered off and left me. No matter which buttons I press, I can’t get to it.

But none of this matters because now the screen has gone “weird”. Everything looks really faded and washed out, even when I change the screen settings to SUPER DUPER HIGH CONTRAST.

She’s really upset about it because she’s now lost all her music for her iPod. I think I might just make her unwrap the RAM for Christmas, before sending it back.