Ghosts Of Computers Past
August 31, 2007 by john
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It’s official… I have successfully extracted the precious data from my dead* computer. All it took was a handy external drive enclosure, and I managed to get the drive mounted on another system. So I pulled my data, digital photos, and other important stuff off the drive. Now I feel a little more relieved about the whole nightmare… my old computer seems to be hosed; it’ll take a new motherboard to make it live again. But that isn’t a terribly huge expense, and I will probably wind up repurposing that machine as a server.
* It would be more accurate to say my old computer is “mostly dead”. I suspect my friend David would approve of this diagnosis…
Posted in: Computers, Electronics
It’s been mostly dead all month! Congratulations on the recovery, and a tip of the hat to Brad for the analysis on the motherboard being the source of all evil. A couple of bad capacitors can ruin your whole day!