No UPS's for those boxes? Bummer. I had a similar problem in the past causing me grief, and also had power go out half way through flashing a new bios. Since then I gradually added 7 UPS's in the house. No major surprises since.
lopaka --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Steve Tomporowski <didym...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Steve Tomporowski <didym...@gmail.com> Subject: [H] Sometimes they're just out to get you To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 11:06 AM I was having a pretty good vacation until this morning. Both computers running, one's a P35, the other P45 system. Power Outage. By the time it took me to get through to UI, the power came back on. P45 system booted fine. Boot Disk Fail on the P35 (Abit MB). In between my wife sending me out on all kinds of errands (it amazes me how the wife can instinctively know when I'm doing something important and supplant that with the trivial), I start a reinstall of windows to fix the boot record (somehow the repair option was not there or do I misremember?) and bang, another power outage. Again the power comes right back in five minutes. I restart the reinstall, get it to boot and , despite the fact that I now have 3 entries on boot, I get the old system back...except...the data drive is missing. Boot-up detection does and doesn't detect the drive, it gives a blank listing, rather than none. Of course the OS does not see the drive. Blank entry in BIOS with all zeros. Tried reseating cables, new cable, moving drive to other computer, same result. Drive seems to be fried. It was the storage for all my program files (which I can eventually replace) and all my photos, of which I think maybe half are backed up. I have other drives that I've been religiously backing up, that one was one of my least concerns. Of 6 HDs, the only one that goes is the one with stuff I cannot replace...sheesh. So Tim Lider, please contact me offlist. Thanks...Steve __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4193 (20090626) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
