Computer down
May. 1st, 2006 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99This morning, the computer would not boot up. If anyone emailed I didn't get it yet. The current plan is to 1) use an external hard drive bay to conect the hard drive to a laptop and determine if the data is at all visible. Then 2) get another hard drive and slave the old one to it, and copy the data after booting from the new drive.
On the bright side, I may now be able to upgrade to a later version of Debian so I can get a better version of openoffice.org running. Then again, my computer tends to get tired of certain distros after a while, and then I can never load that distro on it again. If that happens, then I guess we'll try Ubuntu.
We tried shutting it off, resetting it, and opening it up and making sure all the cards and drives were properly seated/connected. Nope. It may be the board itself - that would make things a bit more difficult hardware-wise but I'd still rather it was that than losing a couple of years worth of environment-building by three people. Oh well. If it's gone, it's gone. I suspect that the little magnets on the fridge may have reached critical mass. One or two by themselves probably wouldn't do it, but they had accumulated up to about 20 or more, and I never noticed. Together they might have built a field that reached over to the computer, dunno. Anyway, I took them all off the fridge. Still haven't thrown them away though - some of them are cool. Maybe I'll bury them out back.
On the bright side, I may now be able to upgrade to a later version of Debian so I can get a better version of openoffice.org running. Then again, my computer tends to get tired of certain distros after a while, and then I can never load that distro on it again. If that happens, then I guess we'll try Ubuntu.
We tried shutting it off, resetting it, and opening it up and making sure all the cards and drives were properly seated/connected. Nope. It may be the board itself - that would make things a bit more difficult hardware-wise but I'd still rather it was that than losing a couple of years worth of environment-building by three people. Oh well. If it's gone, it's gone. I suspect that the little magnets on the fridge may have reached critical mass. One or two by themselves probably wouldn't do it, but they had accumulated up to about 20 or more, and I never noticed. Together they might have built a field that reached over to the computer, dunno. Anyway, I took them all off the fridge. Still haven't thrown them away though - some of them are cool. Maybe I'll bury them out back.