After three weeks, which felt more like years, without my computer I received word yesterday that it is on its way back to me from the repair shop! They have confirmed that the issue was just the graphics card, which really shocked me! I asked if this means that my data was still on the machine and they said yes! If this is true, that means I won't have lost my new sims, Isabella Rossi and Sierra Hall! Also, I will still have the lot that I was creating when the laptop crashed. I had just put the final touch on the house and saved the game. While it was saving, I went into the other room to grab something. My husband knocks on the door and says, "Umm..your computer just turned itself off." Thinking that I just knocked the cable out when I stood up, I wasn't too worried. When I got back to the computer, my husband said it made a weird 'zap' sound and then the screen just went black. Never what you want to hear, right? So I look and I see that the computer is still actually on...kinda. The power light is on but all other LED lights are off. There is no sound, the laptop is just ghostly quiet and the screen is black. So, I do a hard reboot and the same thing happens, only know the fan is running on ultra speed. Needless to say, I never got the computer back up. So I'm not entirely sure if the game finished saving or not before the computer crashed but I save pretty frequently when building so it won't be a major issue if the last save didn't finish. The computer's nono severe that I feared it was a major issue...probably the motherboard. I was sure all of the data I hadn't backed up was gone (which was luckily only about a month worth of data as I had recently backed up). I was so excited to hear that just the video card had to be replaced! So, now I will hopefully have the laptop back tomorrow. At least I will have it for the weekend!! There are a million things I want to do that I don't know where to start. This is the first time I have gone without a personal computer in over 7 years. Craziness! I almost bought another computer just to hold me over lol. Anyway, enough about that. Here's hoping the laptop arrives tomorrow as planned! :D