Steve,
Let me add to Lopaka's reply. Long ago, and, after much noise from the
List, I finally spent the $$$ and bought some UPS's. Since then, I have
lived much better. If you choose to do UPS's, double whatever load you
might compute; you get a bit of extra time when MOM is lighting UP your
piece of Earth! But. That is JMHO.
Good luck Bro. Hope your recovery ends up 5-by-5.
Best,
Duncan
Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
No UPS's for those boxes? Bummer. I had a similar problem in the past causing
me grief, and also had power go out half way through flashing a new bios. Since
then I gradually added 7 UPS's in the house. No major surprises since.
lopaka
--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>
Subject: [H] Sometimes they're just out to get you
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 11:06 AM
I was having a pretty good vacation until this morning.
Both computers running, one's a P35, the other P45 system. Power Outage. By
the time it took me to get through to UI, the power came back on. P45 system
booted fine. Boot Disk Fail on the P35 (Abit MB). In between my wife sending
me out on all kinds of errands (it amazes me how the wife can instinctively
know when I'm doing something important and supplant that with the trivial), I
start a reinstall of windows to fix the boot record (somehow the repair option
was not there or do I misremember?) and bang, another power outage. Again the
power comes right back in five minutes. I restart the reinstall, get it to
boot and , despite the fact that I now have 3 entries on boot, I get the old
system back...except...the data drive is missing. Boot-up detection does and
doesn't detect the drive, it gives a blank listing, rather than none. Of course
the OS does not see the drive. Blank entry in BIOS with all zeros. Tried
reseating cables, new
cable, moving drive to other computer, same result. Drive seems to be fried.
It was the storage for all my program files (which I can eventually replace)
and all my photos, of which I think maybe half are backed up. I have other
drives that I've been religiously backing up, that one was one of my least
concerns. Of 6 HDs, the only one that goes is the one with stuff I cannot
replace...sheesh.
So Tim Lider, please contact me offlist.
Thanks...Steve
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