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Personal logo x42brown Supporting Member of TMP04 Jan 2011 6:07 a.m. PST

This last fortnight has been a disaster for my computers.

First my house net back up system breaks down (boxing day). It's hard drives make a hell of racket and won't work. Place where I bought it imediatly replaced the hard ware under warrenty said they could try to recover the data but would have to charge me for it. Like a fool I said it's ok I have the original stuff on the appropriate m/c's.

Next as I'm setting up the new back up drives my large graphics m/c starts to say that it has no optical drives. Phone call to tech department gets an idiot on the phone who tells me that I'll have to use the recovery CD. Can't get it through his skull that no optical drives meen that it is usless trying to load from a CD.

The graphics m/c has gradually stopped talking to all its drives and the network untill on Ne'rday afternoon it quit all together. Thechnition called today with no good news at all reconds that it will be at least 2 weeks to get it restored to it's former glory if it is possible at all takes m/c to workshop.

So I'm left with the lap top and net book. It's going to be a tough two weeks and I don't know how much I've lost permanently.

I've used computers as part of my live since 1972 and this is the first time I've had any real problems (including my first blue screen of death).

x42

Daffy Doug04 Jan 2011 8:31 a.m. PST

Wow, you've been lucky then. From the getgo, in 2002, I had over a month of trouble even getting on the Net; it was a link port failure, but could "they" find that out? No. EVERY other possibility was discarded before "they" finally went out to the junction box and found the dead hardware. Then my hardrive packed in. I lost whole chapters of my manuscripts when my Zip drive did the "click of death" all over my Zip discs (this preceeds the Net and SUBSEQUENT hardrive woes). I have replaced hardrives two more times since; all within c. nine years. I don't get graced with a blue screen of death; my 'puter simply stops moving. A blue screen of death would mean that the monitor is still alive, at least; and that wasn't the case last time either.

But, as long as my original hardrive (the biological one) keeps on truckin' I won't complain. Computers can all go to hell….

Micman Supporting Member of TMP04 Jan 2011 12:03 p.m. PST

That is really good luck.

I have been fairly lucky myself as only one hard drive failure in 20 years. I have had other hard ware die, power supplies, video cards, mother boards, ram, just about everything else. I now do a much better job of backing up my data.

Best of luck for the next two weeks.

Ron W DuBray05 Jan 2011 9:04 a.m. PST

sounds like you had a small EMP in your home.
did you have anything trip a breaker or stop working around that time?

I had a toaster fry and trip its breaker
then had 6 HD in 3 different computers stop working the next day when I turned them back on because some of their start-up control data was gone.

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