PC pandemic!

[jackpilot]

Now my turn:
My FS PC behaving bad,

It did shut down abruptly.
After that when started it hums for 4seconds and shuts down.


PS: never had a prob with that one.

[Bob Reed]

Does not sound good Jack. Sounds like a short in the board or power supply. Do you have another power supply you could test with?

[matta757]

Find anything out Jack?

[jackpilot]

Compassion appreciated!!!

No nothing within my range of competence.
Will bring it to the doctor!!

I just hope all my data is still there.
So much tweaking in the cfg's !!!

[matta757]

Jack,

I totally feel your pain, especially in terms on the CFG files. Losing that stuff is like taking a bullet. I learned the hard way a while ago to backup, backup, backup everything. Good luck!

Matt

[jackpilot]

would you believe it:
The switch (Power and Reset) was the culprit..stuck
This is why the PC was starting and shutting off after a few seconds.

No spare for that so instead of changing the whole case (!!) I will adapt  two mini push switches from the board terminals for power and reset (identified).

fiouuuu!
PS: I bought an external HD for backups.

[Maurice]

fiouuuu!
PS: I bought an external HD for backups.

You may want to use the XP backup utility which creates an entire image of your disk as opposed to just backing up configuration & other files. This way, if your disk drive kicks the bucket, all you would need to do is replace the drive, install bare XP and use the restore utility to get you back in business. No need to reinstall anything except XP.

Maurice

[jackpilot]

willco Sir!

[saabpilot]

Another and superfast backup method.

You install hot swap dual hard drive bays accessible from the PC front.

Use two harddrives and clone #1 to #2 - takes only minutes compared to a backup program.
If (= when) the active harddrive goes to the harddrive heaven you just swap the bad one with the cloned and in seconds you are up running again.
The bays are dirt cheap - some 100 $.
Only requirements are extra hard drive and room for the bay in your PC.
Most of us have top notch rigs for the FS computer with tower boxes so room is usually not a problem.

The other networked ones usually holds relatively small amount of data so a standard backup to an external harddrive with Norton or Acronis is easiest.