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June 25th, 2003, 09:30 PM
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Re: Yet another victim.
While it may not be the problem in this case, old RAM can cause some pretty strange problems, including sporadic (or even not-so-sporadic) failures to boot.
I just recently got an older system up and running that had given me grief for a long time. I replaced every piece of it, including the case and power supply, but didn't think to change the RAM. I had all kinds of odd problems, including frequent failures to boot. Then, I got smart and changed the RAM out, and it works like a champ.
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June 25th, 2003, 11:45 PM
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Re: Yet another victim.
Please, no body takes this the wrong way.
All, of whom that has lost a Hard Drive, should compare notes, on any files that are in common, that have received, downloaded, opened, or shared.
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June 25th, 2003, 11:56 PM
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Re: Yet another victim.
The point of all of this should be the importance of backing up to removable media. As the price of IDE hard drives has fallen, so has the reliability. What used to be a rarity is now quite common. If you have a system that is used every day, you have a 1 in 12 chance of writing off a boot drive over a five year period. If you spend time writing code, or even DL’ing files, you should back up your data.
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June 26th, 2003, 02:20 AM
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Re: Yet another victim.
Thermodyne,
What you say about the qualty / price reminds me of the 170MB Quantum I have. Can't remember the price but I was using Windows 386. It still runs on the same system though I only fire her up for show now.
It is on this system:
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June 27th, 2003, 01:30 AM
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Re: Yet another victim.
Are you having an especially hot summer up there above the Equator ? I know most of my component failures happened during warm weather.
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June 27th, 2003, 01:56 AM
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Re: Yet another victim.
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June 26th, 2003, 02:03 PM
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Re: Yet another victim.
Well, my computer is in an air conditioned room, with plenty of ventilation.
Time for a discussion on What are the best/worst drives to buy...
The one I just lost (after 6 months) is a Maxtor, the sixth drive I've had in this case.
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