Luger Holster Repair

[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...