From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>I'm terribly sorry to hear that. After reading the rest of your letter, including the part about how many computers have died on you, I am convinced that you have some VERY BAD WIRING in your home. It is simply not possible for that many computers to have the same flaky problems without suspecting the electric supply. Either that, or you are sitting on a magnetic/radioactive well of some kind!
The absolute worst thing happened. My iBook, took it upon itself to erase, all my documents.
If it *IS* faulty wiring, I *urge* you to have that examined and repaired. That's the sort of thing that is at the root of most house fires, and I would hate to think of something that awful happening to your property.
Now normally that would not be a bad thing, Clean house whatever... however, I had no backups. I had been dumping all my old backups, the things accumulate like bees on a plate of honey, so had dumped them all with the idea that I'd do a new backup Tuesday morning.
I'm not sure what to make of this statement. I guess you must be backing up to CD-R?
Over time, I've found that by far the easiest, cheapest and most reliable way to back up is to buy an external Firewire hard drive and "clone" the startup drive using whatever method appeals. Hopefully next time you'll be able to invest in that method.
Could the logic board have had something to do with this?I'll leave that to wiser heads to answer, but my inclination is to say "no."
Could the hard drive still be faulty>?
Yes. Or the RAM could be bad. But much more likely to me is the idea that your machines and their components have been damaged by electric mini-surges and mini-brownouts. While your iBook's battery should protect you from brownouts, it doesn't do much to protect you from surges. I sincerely believe that putting your computer equipment on a UPS will add AT LEAST a year of life to the product.
I have he extened warranty, however have my doubts as to what may happenIn your present situation, I think I would do the following:
again...
1. If your iBook came with the Apple Hardware Test, run it thoroughly.
2. Explain your situation to Apple and have them take the iBook and reset it back to factory default. While you wait for its return, buy a UPS unit.
3. Use the iBook ABSOLUTELY AS YOU GOT IT (no additions or tinkering!) for a few days/weeks/however long. Give it a thorough test drive.
4. Assuming that goes well, add in your third-party stuff as needed. Remember to create a second "virgin user" in OS X that you can fall back to if things get odd.
5. Make regular backups.
_Chas_
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