This is not my idea of a good time

[marycrawford]

So. Day off. Massive storm outside, and my PC is doing extremely scary things - rebooting continuously, for one. It is now in the corner, unplugged, wearing a dunce's cap and scowling. Hah.

Think it's a hardware/driver problem and not a virus, since I have Windows Update and the Norton at their most paranoid settings, but who knows. I am not a hardware geek, I leave that to the SO - who is a king among men for suggesting I needed to download the story in progress to a USB stick, which was pretty much the only possible way to get at it since the server I backed it up on is also down. I managed to do that, with split second timing in between sudden reboots, and am now working on the laptop.

But if my beloved half-year-old computer is fried, I shall weep. And also kick myself for not burning all my H:tLJ vid source and Premiere project files to CD. Moral: Back Your Stuff UP. Do it NOW.

Comments

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Glad your story's extracted from clutches of flapping hardware. Sounds harrowing.

If your resident geek can't figure it out, call us, we've had similar problems recently-ish. Turned out not to be the motherboard/physical harddisk this time, but a corrupt file allocation table on the hard drive, and it was fixable. All data recovered. And the good news about PC's is that they're hardly ever completely fried. The time before the last time it was 'just' the CPU which was physically fried.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Thanks muchly for the reassurance! Yeah, I remember your post about that. Will call if needed.

BTW, email is also down due to (unrelated?) server problems, just FYI - but then I'm still a couple of thousand words short, so no need to send anything on this end yet. :-)

[halimede.livejournal.com]

As long as your still able to get online, I'm sure we can get data across somehow. It's a last resort, but if we had to we could even put stuff in one-person-filtered LJ posts, though I'd prefer to try other options first. Also? Finish it already, so we can revise and stuff! *g*

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Email is back online, so that's good.
SO is working on the PC while I work on the story. Hope to finish first draft tonight if all goes well.

Mary, alternately crossing her fingers and hitting her characters over the head

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Eek, glad you were able to back up your story.

Oh, and I sent you an email letting you know where the large barn scans are.

Feeling nostalgic

[cookatwork.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your computer problems, but it reminds me so much of the time our first little computer died. Especially the hassle with the timing inbetween reboots.

Well - it was a problem with the ACDC-thingie, but the repair-man insisted to remove a stain from the motherboard and killed our pc in the process.

I hope your problems aren't as severe as they now appear. Good luck with resolving them. And for your story of course.

Re: Feeling nostalgic

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Your repairman tale strikes fear into my heart. Brr.
We're still testing the hardware, I just hope it's something easily replaceable. Preferably not the motherboard...

Thanks for the good wishes,

Mary

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that stinks!!! I hope it's not as bad as it sounds!!

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Hee, denk je dat de geplande revision chat nog gaat lukken vandaag? Dan weet ik ook hoelaat ik mijn bedtijd kan plannen. ;)

[barbaraa.livejournal.com]

I can totally sympathize with your PC woes!
Oh, and big favor. I lost the pictures you sent me when my pc crashed. The ones your SO took on your vacation. Think you might be able to resend them to me after you are one more up and running? Then I'll wisely back them up to CD and print them out for references for my paintings.

Much thanks and a great deal of sympathy on that computer problem!
Barbara

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'll resend the pics as soon as I can get at 'em. And thanks for the sympathy - I know you're in the same boat, and what a leaky rotten boat it is.

[barbaraa.livejournal.com]

Hands Mary the extra bucket...bail away, dear!
Thanks!
Barbara, bailing and beginning to see bottom of boat