On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:02:06AM +0100, Stuart McLean wrote:
> Thanks for all the help - got everything compiled and set up
> modules/PNP stuff. Seemed to be gettting a bit further - getting a
> message from the IO board but still could not do anything useful - debug
> messages indicated tape not present. Decided to check all the
> connections and managed to short something out - power light on PC is
> now flaching and nothing much else appears to be working! Fuse in Power
> supply appears OK. Fan on processor is running but not much other
> action. Tries removeing all peripheries - still not much action.
>
> Looks Like I've blown the motherboard.
>
> Plan was to get some backup going for my Linux box with all my data on
> it.
>
> I've now lost my data.
>
...well, your data is presumably still on your harddisk. If you haven't formatted it,
you can still access your data. What has really gone away is, what your RAM had
contained.
But the latter wouldn't have been saved by any tape drive, anyway.
Try to find somebody of your friends being able to mount your harddisk into his/her
own computer, preferably a linux box that can mount ext2 as well as msdos; keep away
from
any sort of "fdisk", "cfdisk" or "low level format" and your damage won't be too bad,
I would say.
Bye, Juergen.
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