Heh, coincidence... In the Sabrina online's strip of this month,
Sabrina's computer seems to have a big problem when she tries to
turn it on...
David
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, ShinkuuForceZERO@a... wrote:
> > It's your motherboard Jim, it's been fried. I know because a
storm
> did the
> > same to my own & I went a week without a functioning comp.
>
> Turns out it wasn't anything _quite_ so drastic as that.
Apparently,
> when the power went off (which only lasted maybe 2-3 seconds), the
> system was writing something to the registry (this is what was
> explained to me while trying to fix the problem). The computer
never
> knew the power went out, since it was still on when the power
> returned. In any case, I had to install another version of XP on
the
> HD in order to gain access to the drive. I copied/moved whatever
files
> I _had_ to have onto another drive. I will be reformatting the HD
and
> installing a fresh copy of XP later today, I hope. Then I will
simply
> have to reinstall the different programs I used. Shouldn't be too
bad.
>
> --JMH, famous last words...
Received on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 05:40:52 CDT