Re: computer hypothermia -- help!
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
>on Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:41:21AM -0600, Gerald Livingston insinuated:
>> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600
>> Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much
>> > of the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000
>> > miles across the frozen Midwest. i've done this lots of times
>> > before, but usually the trip takes half as long, and is much
>> > colder.
>> >
>> > i have a couple questions, one of which is rather open-ended.
>> > what do you think could have caused this? was it the cold? do
>> > hard drives poo from being frozen?
>> >
>> > does this one appear to be legitimately dying? do i need to look
>> > into getting a new one now as opposed to the 6 months or more i
>> > was going to wait?
>>
>> > </nori>
>>
>> Is this a desktop or laptop system? If it's a desktop box that's
>> been carried around I would suggest you get a clean shutdown then
>> open the box and remove everything that plugs in (cards, memory,
>> maybe even cpu) then put it all back in. Thermal
>> expansion/contraction has most likely caused a few bad connections.
>
>thanks for the suggestion. after a bunch of hard-drive swapping with
>another functional computer, i'm pretty sure it's the hard drive just
>gone beserk. :( oh well ... thanks for your help!
aaah, hd failure, they come in all shapes and forms. Your other posts
indicated it would work for 1/2 hour or so. I'm guessing it's heat
related. So, maybe if the drive is attached to something big and cold
outside (read: to dissipate the heat) you can get some more info off of
it before it warms up? (or maybe just put the pc on the porch and get
the backups by regular networking)? Presuming of course, it's still cold
where you are.
Regards,
// George
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