September 02, 2003

Arrrrrrgghh!

George! Computers, computers, computers! I love 'em for what they do, but damn, they are not like any other appliance you can buy. If my TV quits working, I can just go buy another TV. No loss except for the expense of the new TV. I walked into the office this morning and one of my computers was just sitting dead. The electricity must have gone off over the weekend I thought*, so I was just going to restart it. It would not start. I press the switch and no lights, no whir, no power is going in. I have been tinkering with it for an hour or more, but still no power. I have two other computers here at the office, so it would not be that much of a problem except .... the dead one is my network server. It is where all of the files are stored: all of the documents I have created for cases and my calendar. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghh! I am most likely going to have to remove the hard drive and put it in one of the other systems just to recover the data. I am not sure where I am going to come up with another computer to replace that one. I gave away its predecessor six months ago. I now wish I hadn't.

[UPDATE: My friend, the one to whom I gave the old system has a new case with a new switch and power supply, so I am going to take this system to his place and he is going to put it in the new case. Hopefully that will fix the problem. I will let ya'll know if it works.]

*This was wrong, however, as both of the other two computers were on and were fully operational. This one would not have rebooted after the electricity reset.

Posted by notGeorge at September 2, 2003 12:08 PM
Comments

OH NOOOOOOO! Hey, call us this Wednesday evening and maybe Eric can help you troubleshoot it over the phone! You might be able to rescue it!

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at September 2, 2003 12:23 PM

Any chance the problem is merely the power supply? 'Cause that's kind of what the symptoms suggest to me.

My wife and I took a very brief computer repair course that included taking out the power supply and putting it back in. Any computer nerd in your town could handle the task.

Posted by: McGehee at September 2, 2003 01:40 PM