No, not yet. But I've just initiated a stealth campaign to convince my wife that we really need one (since I'm currently unemployed, my wife is the one who makes that sort of monetary decision).
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:11, Cam Ellison wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > In the meantime, I rebooted the computer and ran BIOS. I poked around, but > > > didn't change a darn thing. Nothing. Not a single character. But I went > > > ahead and saved my changes anyway, instead of just "exit without saving > > > changes". > > > > That is the solution. Most BIOS's save what they last knew as the > > machine state and complain if anything is different when they boot back up. > > Sometimes when you change out a non-booting hard disk on older BIOSs, or > > add memory, or open a machine with 'intrusion detection' the key to > > getting them to be quiet is just go into the BIOS menu and hit whatever > > you need to to save the settings. (other times you have to tweek a disk > > type, or toggle a 'I know I opened the case' option...) > > > > Glad you got it working. > > Umm... don't you have a UPS? A good one gives you clean power, which may be part of > your problem. Where I live, we get outages from windstorms, and the wiring in this > house was done by someone far more amateur-ish than I. You should be able to get >one > for $200-$300 that will give you an hour or more of dime, and a graceful shutdown >when > the battery expires. It may also save you from a permanently cooked CPU. > > Good luck > > Cam > > -- > Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. > >From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
