Computer death!

Jul 01, 2005 14:07

Last sunday, we had a power surge. The speakers popped, the lights brightened, and then the power went out for a second or two. When it came back on, so did the modem, the lights, the fan... but not my computer.

Uh oh.

Got on Ben's computer to talk to guitarbluesman for some tech support (hey, he does it professionally, so I felt compelled to run and tell him ( Read more... )

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Free Lunch guitarbluesman July 1 2005, 18:33:21 UTC
Oh sure, -he- get's a free lunch.... Where's -my- free lunch?!

See, this is why tech support cross country sucks - the lack of free lunches ;-)

I'm glad to see that Connor is up and running again.

~P~

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Re: Free Lunch gbjazzman July 2 2005, 03:04:05 UTC
Sucks about the drives tho. The best guess I've got is something happened to the IDE channel that those drives were on during the power out.

As for the lunch, make her buy you a rare or something in WoW :)

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goodcow July 2 2005, 05:54:34 UTC
My surge protector has a $500,000 warranty PLUS data recovery.

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selesamalyndar July 3 2005, 03:15:37 UTC
Well isn't you a bitch!

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