Feck - Don't you just hate it when...
04 February 2005, 09:45 PM
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**** - Don't you just hate it when...
you get home & you find that one of your computers has died 
It's late, I can't be ar$ed to start fault-finding now but it looks like either the mobo has died or the PSU has...
We seem to have had a power-cut of some description as my shuttle was off so I'm hoping its the PSU - fortunately I've a UPS on my Server...
It is an old machine but faithful so it'll mean get the screwdriver out in the morning
Luckily I have a spare unused PSU lurking around...
It's late, I can't be ar$ed to start fault-finding now but it looks like either the mobo has died or the PSU has...
We seem to have had a power-cut of some description as my shuttle was off so I'm hoping its the PSU - fortunately I've a UPS on my Server...
It is an old machine but faithful so it'll mean get the screwdriver out in the morning
Luckily I have a spare unused PSU lurking around...
04 February 2005, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
It is an old machine but faithful so it'll mean get the screwdriver out in the morning
sounds like its time to treat your self to a new machine, then maybe youl be able to kill me at CZ on rogueThats if your the same puff im thinking of
I know what you mean though i had a power could here a couple of weeks ago, afterwards windows wouldnt load so i had to do a Format
Bye to all the MP3s i lost and Uni work
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04 February 2005, 10:08 PM
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I've just been setting up a Linux dual-boot on my existing Windows 2k RAID 0 setup. The Linux was on another HDD, but Fedora cleverly over-wrote the MBR on the RAID array, rather than writing to the separate drive as it was supposed to. I know the trick works because I've done it before - but not this time. And the Windows recovery console refuses to restore the MBR: FIXMBR has no effect, and FIXBOOT just throws up an error. But I did manage to stop the Linux install booting as well, so now neither OS will work.
Good job I have three other computers...
M
Good job I have three other computers...
M
04 February 2005, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDriverWannabe
sounds like its time to treat your self to a new machine, then maybe youl be able to kill me at CZ on rogueThats if your the same puff im thinking of
I know what you mean though i had a power could here a couple of weeks ago, afterwards windows wouldnt load so i had to do a Format
Bye to all the MP3s i lost and Uni work
My games machine is 2.4Ghz Shuttle with ATi 9800 etc. Old faithful is a P3 800 with a range of HDDs & bits which is totally sound as a workstation on W2K with 768Mb RAM
Let's see what the doctor finds
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05 February 2005, 01:47 PM
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Tallking of the older boxes . . .
One of the machines still banging away at home is a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 tower with 196Mb and loads of SCSI disks, I bought it in November 1996 !
Basic services like DNS, WINS, FTP, print queues etc all running on NT4 ! I know it is well legacy but simple is best and I know my way round NT and AD seems such a sledgehammer !
It has been a great unit and only recently got promoted as the P75 which was spinning away in the loft only had an ISA card so only 10MBs
rich
One of the machines still banging away at home is a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 tower with 196Mb and loads of SCSI disks, I bought it in November 1996 !
Basic services like DNS, WINS, FTP, print queues etc all running on NT4 ! I know it is well legacy but simple is best and I know my way round NT and AD seems such a sledgehammer !
It has been a great unit and only recently got promoted as the P75 which was spinning away in the loft only had an ISA card so only 10MBs
rich
Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
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All seems to be booting now - just got to check my conns as one of the HDDs not running
All seems to be booting now - just got to check my conns as one of the HDDs not running
05 February 2005, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
10 MBS good enough for a home network 
Still a couple of hosts still using 10Mbs (Tivo and Slim Device thingy)
Puff have you got ADSL yet ? Only ask as we got it turned on Weds and I am very happy with the 2Meg connection replacing the 64k ISDN !
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