On 13/12/02 12:34, "David Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... the bad news is that when I took a horrendous spill on a platform on > the Washington Metro Tuesday night (they'd just washed the platform, > which quickly glazed over with ice. Warning signs downstairs, but not > where the problem was. Any personal injury lawyers out there?????) , I > fell partially on my hip and elbow, but my Pismo (in briefcase) took > some of the impact as well. > > No problems until Thursday night, when things started getting screwy. > Here are the symptoms: > > 1. couldn't get web access with Netscape, Mozilla or IE: in fact, they > wouldn't even fully load. I checked my TCP/IP settings, and they'd > mysteriously switched to another set. > 2. I ran Norton Utilities -- Disk Doctor did fix several settings > (forgot to save the report). When I then did Speed Disk, it ground > to a halt as it was defragmenting, and there was a mysterious blank > message box on the screen, and the rotating disk on the cursor had > changed to some strange looking thing I'd never seen before -- > looked like a few random pixels. > 3. I reinstalled 9.2, and when I tried to rebuild the desktop, it > never got beyond the recording file comments stage.. > 4. I opened it up to see if there was anything obvious, such as loose > RAM, loose connectors, etc. Nothing obvious. > > I'm about to give up, and am really short of $ right now, so I'd like to > avoid massive repair bills if at all possible. Anyone have any ideas > before I pack it in? It sounds like the hard disk was hit. If you have the time, try backing up important files and reformat the drive. See how it goes. If no problems are found, you might want to reinstall the OS. -Laurent. -- =========================================================================== Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ************************* Usual disclaimers apply ************************* foo /foo/: 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud. When `foo' is used in connection with `bar' it has generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR (`F... Up Beyond All Repair'), later modified to foobar. Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of `foo' perhaps influenced by German `furchtbar' (terrible) - `foobar' may actually have been the original form. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
