Luger Holster Repair

[AR-50A1]

Just to let folks know, Jerry's computer 'bit the dust' and, for the time being, will not to be able to receive / send emails or post and / or answer threads in this forum. He can still be reached by phone.

Enjoy the peace & quiet :-)

Jerry Burney
11491 South Guadalupe Drive
Yuma, AZ 85365
928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round
719 207-3331 (cell)


636 Scenic Lane
Howard, CO 81233

[lugerholsterrepair]

Enjoy the peace & quiet :-) ??????

Jerry Burney
11491 South Guadalupe Drive
Yuma, AZ 85365
928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round
719 207-3331 (cell)


636 Scenic Lane
Howard, CO 81233

[gunnertwo]

He's baaaaack....

G2

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by AR-50A1

Just to let folks know, Jerry's computer 'bit the dust'...

Argh! It's spreading!!!

[ithacaartist]

All backed up, right?

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

All backed up, right?

You say that like a non-believer...Imaged, cloned, bad HDD in garbage...

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How times have changed. Technology vs cost. Back in 1996, a Western Digital 850 Megabyte HDD cost me ~$300. Friday, I ordered TWO W-D 250 Gigabyte HDD's for $21 each...

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

You say that like a non-believer..

Nope, I believe, brother, I belieeeeve! Even I can learn, eventually... after one complete crash and a couple of near misses, I have an external backup HD, but thinking of going to the cloud.

I think value in electronics has always increased over time, like knee replacement technology. The longer you wait, the better the bargain and results. Just depends on how much pain you want to handle before you commit to it.

Originally Posted by wlyon

My wife was a computer programmer so up until a year ago I didn't need to know anything. I have managed to retain the same amount of knowledge. Re-boot sounds good whatever it is. Bill.

We were wondering earlier tonight if electroshock therapy is like a reboot for someone's noggin.

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

How times have changed. Technology vs cost. Back in 1996, a Western Digital 850 Megabyte HDD cost me ~$300. Friday, I ordered TWO W-D 250 Gigabyte HDD's for $21 each...

I was in Bitburg base exchange and saw a 850 mb hardrive, it was ON SALE for $280, I called him and bought one for me and one for me.

We had the beast of hard drive space!!

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

We had the beast of hard drive space!!

In '96, I was still running WfWG 3.11 and wondering what the holdup on Windows 95 was...I asked too many questions and ended up Beta-testing Windows for the next 10 - 12 years...

I still have that old Packard-Bell PC intact on a shelf in my basement...75Mhz CPU, 250MB RAM, the 850MB HDD, integrated motherboard, keyboard & mouse...I just can't see throwing something away when it still works...Even if it's so old that nothing today will even run on it...

Somewhere, I still have Win95 OSR2 on 25 floppy disks, for installing on an old Compaq laptop with no CD drive...And, of course, DooM...

[sheepherder]

After replacing the HDD that was showing excessive re-allotted sectors with another of equal size and cloning my Windows disk image to it, I also got a bigger HDD to replace it.

I decided to go with a fresh install of Windows on the new HDD but the optical drive had a hard time reading the Microsoft install disk...kept getting 'can not copy file xxxxx.dll, Abort?'...So I figured I had a bad CD/DVD (they deteriorate over time) so I ordered a new optical drive/DVD burner.

While waiting, I tried a slipstreamed Windows install CD with all the service packs installed...It worked fine on two other PCs. So now I'm congratulating myself on diagnosing the problem correctly...

Wrong! The PC needed cleaning so while I had it apart I noticed that one of the two PSU's fans wasn't spinning...Not a big deal, plain bearings, they get hot and eventually seize, I have several spare fans to replace a burned-out fan.

When I took the PSU apart I found the problem...Not the optical drive, but the capacitors in the PSU...

First pic shows the bad power supply unit with red lines pointing to the burst-open caps leaking electrolite (the brown slime)... Second pic is the other half of the dual-PSU setup, all caps look good, none bulged, no leakage.

So, with a new DVD burner on the way, I had to go back to www.newegg.com and order a new PSU. Until then, I'm running this PC on one 300w PSU, barely enough to power the three HDDs, the optical drive, the disk drive, the GPU, about six cooling fans as well as the NIC and sound card. It's barely enough.

10 - 12 year old PC that I built when I was Beta testing games, O/S's, drivers, etc. Surprising that it has all lasted this long...

[DonVoigt]

Rich,
what do the charts mean ? How is it "fixed"?
And how is it "spreading"?

As is highly evident from this post- I know nothing of computer stuff!
I suspect not too many of us do, being born and raised "analog" men.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

what do the charts mean ?

As is highly evident from this post- I know nothing of computer stuff!

Don, I am not an expert on anything; I know a little about a few things. I build my own PCs, and if something interests me, I'll learn a bit about it.

This chart is from a new software that I don't usually use - I wanted to know the number of reallocated sectors. Those are the 'bad' sectors that are blocked off and Windows can't 'see' or use. Any HDD will typically have some even when new. But when the number starts climbing and the rate increases it means your drive is failing.

I like HDTune & Crystal - they simply say "OK" or "Bad". Simple, even for a moron like me.

What tipped me off, was using Macrium Reflect (also new to me: I had been using Power Quest Drive Image for my backups) to image my 'new' laptop HDDs with Win XP, Win 7.1, Win 8.1, and Win 10 so I could restore them after mucking about with them. Reflect was giving me error msgs and aborting. I'd reboot, try again, and it would work. One time, while imaging this HDD, I ran chkdsk and instead of the usual list of used/good sectors, I got a runaway screen of 'Reallocated Sectors' that went on for several seconds. Bad. I ran HDTune and then Crystal and got the bad news: My HDD was dying.

But I have a drawer full of old HDDs of various sizes, and I only store O/S's and programs on my boot drive and burn my data to CD/DVD so if it did die it's no loss.

So as far as the charts go, if it says 'Good" or is all green, I'm a happy clam. If it's red or says 'Bad" or even yellow and 'Caution", then I spring into action like a snail!

And I cloned another 80GB HDD of this system (dual-boot, 4 partitions, 98 and XP, FAT32 and NTFS) so I'd have a quick cold-swappable backup HDD for emergencies.

We should all learn from Jerry's misfortune.

[lugerholsterrepair]

Nothing major as it turns out. I had unplugged some electrical stuff switching electrical outlets and it corrupted a windows 10 file slowing my puter down to moleasses. I had to delete and re install Windows 10. I know less than nothing about these things..my expertise is along another line. But thank God there ARE people who know how to work them.

[DonVoigt]

Rich,
thanks for the explanation- clear as mud to me.
I hope I'm covered for recovery by using Carbonite.

Sometimes when one can't "do", one must pay !

My tool box for fixing anything wrong with a computer device is to "re-boot". If that don't fix it - I'm done!

[wlyon]

My wife was a computer programmer so up until a year ago I didn't need to know anything. I have managed to retain the same amount of knowledge. Re-boot sounds good whatever it is. Bill.

[cirelaw]

Jerry hold on to it and sell it on Ebay in about ten more years~ Eric

[tomaustin]

Always google "geek squad" !!!!

[sheepherder]

About that Western Digital 80GB HDD that is failing (and has been cloned & replaced)...If you look at the lower left of my first pic you'll see "Power On Time: 36655"...That's total hours on that drive...Equivalent to 4 1/2 years of constant running...Since I shut down at night and when I was at work, it is about 12 1/2 years old...

That's about right. I bought it around 2005/6.

Pretty good run for a HDD.

...And it still works. Just keeps re-allocating sectors...It'll run out of unused sectors eventually and then it will get really wonky...

[cirelaw]

I have a larger separate stand up hard drive like referred to above by Ed! It saved my life twice~

[cirelaw]

Get a patent!!