Failing computer hardware must communicate with working hardware in a diabolical way. Last fall, failure of the motherboard on our venerable G3 Mac was followed by failure of the backup external hard drive, just as the data were being transferred to our new G5. Coincidence? I think not...!
Rick --- "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.... > > <Pentax Content> > On a positive side I've been able to install all the > latest Pentax > *ist-D software and I've decided that Pentax Remote > assistant is > actually pritty cool and maybe even usefull. > </Pentax Content> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
