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02-14-2014, 08:58 AM | #1 |
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ARGH...Murphy stikes!
My "new" Dell computer at the house decided to crash last night. Of course the 1 year service warrenty expired on Feb. 8th. Par for the course!
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02-14-2014, 09:03 AM | #3 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
sorry to hear Steve. Did you lose the hard drive? or is the computer not booting up. I'm praying is the power supply that failed.
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02-14-2014, 09:07 AM | #4 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Murphy sure sucks, specially when he hogs up the ice, not once, not twice but 3 x's.
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02-14-2014, 09:08 AM | #5 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Haha. I was thinking this was a bomb thread about our member Murphyslaw. Oops.
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02-14-2014, 09:13 AM | #6 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
This is why I left PC's and went to Mac's. Nothing against PC's, I just got sick of the constant spyware, malware, Viruses, and crashes. Since going mac 2 years ago, not a single issue.
Sorry man! I hope you get it fixed and back in working order. I know how bad this sucks.
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02-14-2014, 09:18 AM | #7 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Jason is right. I personally haven't gone that route yet, but I built and setup a server in my house which backups every computers I have every night.
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02-14-2014, 09:20 AM | #8 | |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
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Doom on me.
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02-14-2014, 09:39 AM | #9 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Simmer down now.
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02-14-2014, 09:48 AM | #10 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
It might still be recoverable/repairable -- at least enough to save your important data (p**n, etc. ). I would suggest taking it into a local repair place. In some areas the Best Buy Geek Squad is pretty good -- you might check them out. Otherwise, I would get recommendations from friends/co-workers on a good computer repair place.
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02-14-2014, 10:10 AM | #12 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Save the important stuff!
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02-14-2014, 10:18 AM | #13 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
I actually did a backup of my data (music, documents, etc.) a week or so ago. What's going to be a pain is finding the program installation files for Office, Nero, etc., not to mention the original install of Windows Hate. and the drivers for my video card, etc...
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02-14-2014, 10:24 AM | #15 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
I thought I was sleep bombing...hope you get everything restored bud!
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02-14-2014, 10:25 AM | #16 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Of course I never "got around" to creating a recovery disk of the original install image.
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02-14-2014, 11:14 AM | #17 | |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
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I convinced my parents to go mac despite their protests and having to learn a new system and once they started learning they've fallen in love with it. There's not a huge difference between them other than you don't get too many viruses on them just due to the fact that they don't make a lot of viruses on macs and when one is released it's practically national news and within a day there's a patch for it. All I can really say is I'm happy with what i've got but there are ways to prevent them on PC's but backing up is the smartest first step.
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02-14-2014, 11:22 AM | #18 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Jason, one word:
Time Machine Well, one word if you say it really fast.
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02-14-2014, 12:54 PM | #19 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Fortunately I have "most" of the data files backed up. The last backup was a couple of weeks ago, so not that much lost. It looks like somehow the partition got jacked up. I was not able to just restore (which would have left my data) but am in the process of resetting it back to the out of the box condition from a year ago. At least I won't have to go looking for drivers, etc. Just the registration codes for Office, Nero, etc.
I love computers! Hey, I bet those pesky SUn Spots caused by Global Warming did this too me...
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02-14-2014, 12:58 PM | #20 |
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Re: ARGH...Murphy stikes!
Also, somehow this happened 2 days BEFORE my warranty expired. How did that ever happen???
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