Comments | sewaddicted: power spikes ate my HDR

sewaddicted

power spikes ate my HDR

May 01, 2009 10:54

Colour me numbskull.

In the past 5 weeks I've had power outages & more power dips/spikes than I can count and I still didn't get me a surge protector. My Hard drive recorder packed it in last night. It kept freezing failing to send a signal to my TV. And given that my TV is close to 8 years old and is a budget, budget brand at first I thought it ( Read more... )

reading, whine time

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anielmom May 1 2009, 02:56:00 UTC

When Tivo died a terrible, horrible death I almost cried. I had so many great shows I'd been meaning to burn to disk and never got around to. I feel your pain, and grieve with you.
If it's any consolation, I doubt a surge protector would have saved it. We had several outages and brown outs in one night and it took out the computer.

sewaddicted May 1 2009, 03:27:53 UTC

I'm resigned to the loss, though I'm sure there's more stuff I haven't watched yet that'll come to mind in the next few weeks.

last_chael May 1 2009, 08:14:47 UTC

:( I'm so sorry to hear that! I remember how heartbroken I was when the compy technician accidentally wiped the wrong hard drive on my computer. I hope you can get it back!

sewaddicted May 3 2009, 09:05:34 UTC

I'm living in hope, but it'll be a while til I can find out. Needs spare cashy money

quincy134 May 1 2009, 12:53:01 UTC

I'm so sorry! Our HDDVR did that last year too. There was so much I was still planning to watch (I lost some Jane Austen stuff too).

sewaddicted May 3 2009, 09:04:54 UTC

I'm remarkably not upset ... think I've got bigger worries than TV shoes (like making sure I can pay the rent in 2 weeks time!)