I don't think so. The deaths were close together but not on the same
day. The server wasn't on unless I needed it for testing. Just
Murphy's law...
Herb Chong wrote:
you haven't had any external power problems recently, have you?
separate computers dying like that could be a coincidence, but it
might not be. last machine death i had was the IDE controller on the
motherboard, probably because of a power glitch that got through the
surge protectors and the power supply. took all of the IDE drives on
the computer with it. luckily, all my CD drives are SCSI and i had
take full backups just two days before. the only thing i lost were
some email messages. i ended up replacing the entire machine except
for the SCSI and Firewire controllers and the CD drives.
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:16 PM
Subject: Stupid Computer Week.
Well, I've just been forced to upgrade just about everything.
First my Win2K server bites the big one. Mother board and Processor
fried. No big loss I got both for free, and they were getting long in
the tooth, I can re-use just about everything else in the case. I
then discover that no new mother boards will use my the ancient video
card so add that to the mix, (well at least I could re-use the case
and drives).
Next I discover the reason that the MB fried, the power supply
smokes, yep just dies with a puff of acrid smoke, luckily it doesn't
take anything else with it... this time. So it's off for a new power
supply. Now everything seems to be copasetic. Of course Win2K boots
to a blue screen, wrong drivers and all, but that's cool just
re-install the OS. Damn, I forgot it would forget about all the
software, (and updates, did I mention about updates...), so after
getting hooked into the network fiddling with settings until
everything can see each other and spending literally days downloading
updates, it's time to reinstall software. I figure I'll do the stuff
I have local first so I attach to the 85GB drive on my photo machine
and start installing over the network. After the first couple of
programs it STOPS! The network connection is frozen.
The photo machine is blue-screened. The 4 year old 85GB decided to
die right now!!! (It too appears to have smoked, same acrid smell of
burned insulation, but everything else seems to be fine). It had the
most unused space so I had a fair amount stored there. I've lost my
PDML archive, most of the software and utilities I've downloaded and
didn't bother to back up, and about 30 megs of images from the *ist-D
that I hadn't backed up yet. (Not to mention a number of software
projects that hadn't been worked on in a while that I hadn't bothered
to save). Oh yes, my address book and calendar are gone as well web
bookmarks, sheesh, you'd think I'd never had a hard drive fail
before, but you get sloppy. Most things can be re-created but it
will be just such a pain for weeks, maybe even months....
