I was watching a DVD movie last night and started hearing this odd alarm clock sound but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. hit the switch on the KVM to go back to my desktop to visit a web site for a minute, only to find that my primary master (60GB Samsung) was reporting immenent failure and to back up soon. when I rebooted, all I get are "press any key to reboot" messages. I can't even get the piece of crap to boot from CD or RAID card (even though it's set to do so). So I'm going to assume somehow the whole motherboard is effectively dead.
on the upside, there wasn't anything on the hard drive that I need. I'd installed XP Pro on my old Maxtor two months ago and moved my important stuff already. The Samsung was just wasting space as it wsa more-or-less still the default HP bloatware installation with XP Home on the primary partition and had the recovery image on another. I can send in for a CD anyway. I save backups of everything I download to a pair of Seagates, and those are backed up to CD's occasionally. it was a $1k pc that I got for $300 back in March to use as spare parts (monitor, ram, hard drive, processor, etc. worth at least $700) but was eventually forced to make it my primary pc after an accident with my dual cpu board.
ah, and thank the pc gods that I have enough spare parts to cook up a temporary pc. I'm running my old FIC with a 900MHz Duron, 1GB PC133 RAM, an CD-ROM, and a 100MB Zip drive for storage. I'm running DemoLinux from the CD-ROM since the one thing I don't have is a spare hard drive. it runs a little slow considering the whole OS is essentially loaded into the RAM, but it gets the job done.
going to head off to the computer shop this afternoon and pick up a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 and some RAM. with any luck everything will be up and running in a couple hours.
Philip
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Limecat is not pleased.
on the upside, there wasn't anything on the hard drive that I need. I'd installed XP Pro on my old Maxtor two months ago and moved my important stuff already. The Samsung was just wasting space as it wsa more-or-less still the default HP bloatware installation with XP Home on the primary partition and had the recovery image on another. I can send in for a CD anyway. I save backups of everything I download to a pair of Seagates, and those are backed up to CD's occasionally. it was a $1k pc that I got for $300 back in March to use as spare parts (monitor, ram, hard drive, processor, etc. worth at least $700) but was eventually forced to make it my primary pc after an accident with my dual cpu board.
ah, and thank the pc gods that I have enough spare parts to cook up a temporary pc. I'm running my old FIC with a 900MHz Duron, 1GB PC133 RAM, an CD-ROM, and a 100MB Zip drive for storage. I'm running DemoLinux from the CD-ROM since the one thing I don't have is a spare hard drive. it runs a little slow considering the whole OS is essentially loaded into the RAM, but it gets the job done.
going to head off to the computer shop this afternoon and pick up a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 and some RAM. with any luck everything will be up and running in a couple hours.
Philip
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Limecat is not pleased.
my HP just crapped out on me