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Valued Member
United States
440 Posts |
couldn't do anything. Locked up my computer. Tried all virus scans and updates. Took out the restore disk and wiped everything out. printed out my resumes and by budget to reenter later. reloaded bellsouth, printer, scanner, anti virus. (updated). new pop up blocker and a firewall. I was able to pull my pics from Photobucket and put them on my hard drive again. Only took about 4 hrs.
I'm just glad it all worked.......
P.S. the virus also put icons on my desk top and if you tried to delete them they started to upload other websites.....xxx, prescriptions, gambling sites....NASTY STUFF OUT THERE. !!!!!
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
What virus protection and firewall were you using ? The last 3 years I only had to cry mother help 4 times and each time the cause was a free demo of a computergame so I quit buying those previews with free demos The cost of the free demos was killing me  By mother I mean of course my computer pall since my real mother got 94 yesterday Edited by ageka
11/29/2005 1:20 pm
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Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
The hard drive in my wife's laptop just croaked this morning, too. Based on everything I've tried to recover, I think the drive is physically dead. I have a six week old backup of it, which is better than nothing, but still... (sigh)
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Moderator
 United States
23528 Posts |
Reason I have been so sparse lately I have crashed 2 yes two computers over the last week Spent the entire Holiday weekend backing up and restoring and rebuilding have all but one program done (Thank you Bobby for the link) What a nightmare. For you non belivers out there - yes there is a hell! & it is controlled by computers  rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
I'm torn - as someone who has suffered crashes, I can sympathize. As a freelance PC tech, all I can see in your posts are dollar signs. :)
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Moderator
United States
23528 Posts |
quote:
Originally posted by SuperDave
I'm torn - as someone who has suffered crashes, I can sympathize. As a freelance PC tech, all I can see in your posts are dollar signs. :)
Your secret is out you are in trouble now rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Rest in Peace
United States
2684 Posts |
I tentatively and cautiously suggest that if one wants to avoid problems such as this, one might get a Mac. No crashes, no viruses.
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
So far so good for me.
About a year ago, my brother and nephew build me a PC, and it has been perfect. My brother teaches computer science, and my nephew works with the school district, fixing computers.
I also have a Mac, which I use for my newspaper writing.
I only had a crash once, and that was when my son-in-law tried to up-date my system, not realizing that it would erase the hard drive.
By the way, I would appreciate any adise. I just leave my computer running unless I plan on being gone for several days. Is that what I should do? Or, should I turn it off every night?
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United States
23522 Posts |
quote:
Originally posted by Gary Burke
So far so good for me.
About a year ago, my brother and nephew build me a PC, and it has been perfect. My brother teaches computer science, and my nephew works with the school district, fixing computers.
I also have a Mac, which I use for my newspaper writing.
I only had a crash once, and that was when my son-in-law tried to up-date my system, not realizing that it would erase the hard drive.
By the way, I would appreciate any adise. I just leave my computer running unless I plan on being gone for several days. Is that what I should do? Or, should I turn it off every night?
The only components in your computer which are at greater risk while it's running are the harddrive and fans (both have bearings). It's been my experience that 98% of all hardware problems are actually software problems, and the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) ratings for harddrives are astronomical these days. Having said that, I only advise people to leave their computers on 24/7 under the following conditions: 1) Acceptable protection from Internet intrusion through a firewall. 2) Automatic shutdown software to compensate for fan failure and the accompanying potential overheat destruction. 3) Have the harddrive(s) spool down after a given period of inactivity so you don't waste bearing life. 4) Optional: If it's going to be on anyways, download and run a Distributed Computing project of your choice. |
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Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
I had a crash just last week. Thank goodness I make regular back up copies, though the last back-up was nearly a month ago :o(
Still, what a frustrating event. It will take some time before I get everything back to normal.
I feel for people who don't realize making backups is a good idea, and then one day discover years of work is gone. I imagine successful businesses have been lost due to an oversight like this.
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Valued Member
United States
382 Posts |
Welcome to club. I have gone through 2 PC's in the last 4 years. Just take the tower and throw it as far as you can, that works for me. Now I have a Vaio laptop, been good so far. Ya think we are dependent on these things?
Tony ^_^
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
@ Superdave
Firerisk is a factor which should be considered I guess
Also I have a fellow computer engineer who is into hardware and software recovery for people having crashes in a way they do not even notice they had a crah
He told me the biggest wear on a harddrive is the accelleration during start up
So he councilled me to deactivate harddrive shutdown after one hour and to leave my computer running from morning till evening and shutdown overnight only if I wanted
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Most Valued Member
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I run my desktop computer 24/7. Donated about 10,000 CPU hours to SETI now I'm donating to Folding@Home. Have both hardware and software firewalls. Been doing this for about 4 or 5 years, only problems I had were with power supply units failing a couple times. I own a UPS and that's basically it.
I keep an updated image of my whole disk, so rebuilding from a crash is a snap. For $49 bucks I do advise buying Acronis True Image. It will keep a backup of the whole disk, so it's easy to recover from a catrastophic failure.
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
My brothers computer burned because the powersupply was only up to the standard load and he had several extras put into it
I have a second hard disk and Norton Ghost images
And seperately data only on CDread only
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
SuperDave:
Thanks for the information!
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Valued Member
Netherlands
309 Posts |
Crashing computers is something everybody will have in his life I guess, my wife's pc had a worm last week, it has sqrewed up her BIOS, so long to all music and movies she had on it, by the modern internet, and all sick folks who think it's funny to make and send virusses and worms, it's hard to keep up!!
Greetings, Carl
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