Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabridged (18)

Aha! Found y'all!

Laptop's been a bit out of commission, had a disk failure in a RAID 0 array... Now it's a 750 GB RAID 1 + an 80 GB SSD. Woooo!

How's everyone?

^Howdy James!

Sup Hoolian?

I'm good. I'm just finishing up loading music on my new iPhone 4.

Wahoo! I'm restoring most of my data from an on-site backup I managed to make about a day before disk1 kicked the bucket... The rest I can just pull from AWS. Fresh installs are nice though. Fresh installs on SSDs even nicer! I have all of my volatile data on the RAID 1 array, but I'm thinking I might junction the LR catalog cache over to the SSD... Heheh.

Hey James! It seems like a handful of us here have had to deal with 'puter problems lately -- glad you're getting it sorted. I'm dealing with a motherboard that is threatening to die on us here which sucks 'cause it is my photo workstation as well as my grandson's gaming machine. We did find that as long as we never rebooted it it would keep running, but when we reboot it it tends to just stall unless we do the unplug, wait for half a minute, plug it in, then hope it boots up (iffy)!

Fortunately I've backed up my critical stuff, so when it finally dies I'll just go for a new on and install Windows 7 64 at last, and re-install the full nine yards.

Heya. Yeah, I'm used to them though, just not usually with my stuff!

Backups are one thing I really do not play around with... I have hourly off-site incrementals to AWS from any machine I care about. Even if the local backup dies, I can pull it all down. Granted, it'll take some time, but I'm not losing anything!

That's a very strange issue you're seeing though, does it hang after the OS starts booting or before?

hey folks.

tonylong wrote in post #11425742
...I'm dealing with a motherboard that is threatening to die on us .... We did find that as long as we never rebooted it it would keep running, but when we reboot it it tends to just stall unless we do the unplug, wait for half a minute, plug it in, then hope it boots up (iffy)!....

Hmmm.. I've had PCs do that in the past and it usually turned out to be a disk drive taking a while to spin up. Motherboards tend to do things different. Either they fail outright or start to randomly crash. WHen was the last time you dropped a new drive in?

Thalagyrt wrote in post #11425854
Heya. Yeah, I'm used to them though, just not usually with my stuff!

Backups are one thing I really do not play around with... I have hourly off-site incrementals to AWS from any machine I care about. Even if the local backup dies, I can pull it all down. Granted, it'll take some time, but I'm not losing anything!

That's a very strange issue you're seeing though, does it hang after the OS starts booting or before?

It started with a coffee spill by my grandson on a USB keyboard which produced a keyboard error while booting up, and that kept repeating itself. I tried a couple things -- once I ran a chcdsk using a bootable disk that got it running for a session, but then not. It fails during bootup with strange variations -- I found that it has been resetting the BIOS, and tring to boot and fail from a floppy disk drive -- weird. I did a defrag on the C drive once and it ended in a BSOD! Ugly!

gjl711 wrote in post #11425993
Hmmm.. I've had PCs do that in the past and it usually turned out to be a disk drive taking a while to spin up. Motherboards tend to do things different. Either they fail outright or start to randomly crash. WHen was the last time you dropped a new drive in?

You know, this is my original system drive, several years old, and no I haven't replaced it. Probably when it all goes belly up I'll go with the motherboard and a new system drive. Who knows? I haven't even wanted to do a wipe/reload of the OS because I hate to re-install everything until I actually make the leap to Win7.

tonylong wrote in post #11426047
--- I found that it has been resetting the BIOS, and tring to boot and fail from a floppy disk drive -- weird. ---.

The BIOS thing is easy to fix, There is a battery on the MB, usually one of CE2032 watch batteries. Most MBs build in the last 10 years make them replaceable. They usually only last 3~4 years and need replacing. Its a $2 fix.

Mooooooooooooooo

So good to be on holidays. Very busy day today, got most of what I wanted done ie didn't leave too much for other to finish off for me.

Happy vacation!

Almost caught this.....windy day

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gjl711 wrote in post #11426148
The BIOS thing is easy to fix, There is a battery on the MB, usually one of CE2032 watch batteries. Most MBs build in the last 10 years make them replaceable. They usually only last 3~4 years and need replacing. Its a $2 fix.

Ahh, OK, I'll have to do the fix!