computer woes

[SilvrSRT10]

Tony, If you haven't already done so, set up a web based email such as a gmail account. You can also set it up to see other accounts as well such as your business email. The benefit of it is that your emails are kept on their server so that if you have another computer crash you don't lose all of them. You simply log back into your gmail account and all your emails are still there. I've got mine set up to see all my accounts in one location.

 

[redice2]

hey tony if you get yourself back on messenger i will try helping you what i can man sure we can come up with something i got plenty of ways we can get your information

 

[JimTeTe]

PM sent

 

[Deibs]

make sure if you really value your data you do a raid mirror setup and use enterprise class drives. my main hdd has a mean failure time of 1,000,000 hours of use. western digital all the way. type in the word seagate and brick and see what happens.

:rock: On Raid. I've used it for the last 12 odd years and even when i do have failures the worst is that i'm out 100 bucks for a new hard drive but all my info is not lost. I've always used a Raid 1+0 setup stripping and mirroring, (performance and redundancy). That's just what I do and it's overkill for most people so a nice Raid Mirrored Set would be perfect for backups as it doesn't back up certain information it creates 2 sets of all your information one for each hard drive.

 

[Slitherbeast]

Raid arrays is something you set up prior to installing windows. Works great!! cause if one drive crashes you can pull out the bad drive and replace it with a new drive and all the data will be rewritten to the new drive. A computer shop will charge big money for this custom work. find someone who can set it up on you desktop for minimal cost like "BEER" I work for beer .
The laptop drive may still be ok . most times computers won't boot up is because "windows" crashed. Get an adapter cable and install the laptop drive into your desktop computer. If the desktop computer finds the drive you can copy over all the data to your desktop computer . If you are able to retrieve your data the drive should be fine .

 

[tsmith3]

Tony, Laptop drive are tuff as nails. I lost a hard drive on my "work Laptop" and the IT geeks wanted it to pull all the info off to put on my new one. I really didn't want them looking at all the gay porn you have been trying to send me... So I hit with a 1000 Volt megger in attempt to fry it even more.

They got the drive backed up on my new one.

 

[scoobert]

hard drive have gone down hill in the consumer sector.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050530/seagate-bungles-firmware-update

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 01:50

A FEW DAYS after our original article, Seagate had scrambled the techies and produced a new firmware to flash the drives. So far so good.

The new SD1A firmware promised to take away the pain even though it did not solve the problem for people whose drives were already KIA. It would - according to the company - avoid the bricking feature before it happened...

... If it worked.

Adding insult to already injured customers, there are reports streaming in to our inboxes of users who have attempted the firmware flash and have ended up with bricked drives. Yes. That's right... Paperweight city all over the place. Seagate customers are up in arms.

Right about now, a very angry mob is giving phone support a good yell and filling the forums with complaints. If you want to join the festivities and leave a piece of your mind to Seagate's deaf, dumb and blind forums you can visit the forums.

Seagate has hastily removed the doubly-offending firmware before any more customers get their drives killed and is advising that a new firmware will be ready in 24-48 hours time. Naturally, if the drives are already bricked there won't be much you can do in terms of applying new firmware - RMA seems to be the only solution right now.

Oh, and if you want to ask someone at Seagate if it's safe, just forget contacting tech support via chat: the company will not discuss firmware updates on chats. Which brings us to today's mise en scène of "the devil's advocate": if we found we'd been telling people to apply firmware that bricks their drives we'd want the least amount of incriminating evidence (ie: chat logs) around, wouldn't we? But that's just us... because we're The INQ.

The situation, of course, begs the obvious question: how the heck does such a piece of firmware get launched without passing through thorough testing and certification?

We've tried contacting Seagate again, but it appears they think we're a customer.

Anyway, the dung should hit the fan at the stockholder meeting today... stay tuned. µ

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

Ya'll fellas are the greatest friends in the world:rock: tons of pms willing to help out! thanks guys, but dang now I dont know what to do

but today is christmas, we will worry about it tommorrow and thanks a ton for all the suggestions too, I will def go after them for sure:rock:

you guys are just awesome:elefant: :elefant: :elefant:

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

I want to thank you guys for everything:rock:
I will figure out what to do soon.

but for now I am a little pissed
been working on this thing all day trying to get my stuff the way I want, aint gonna happen

so fixin to log off, get up in the morn, and go buya damn new whole deal, spent the last few hours doing research, I know some of you guys could prob get me a better deal, but things are allready way too far behind, so just gonna bite the bullet and go get a $#@^^@@$%@ new one!

hehe thanks

 

[scoobert]

could always do a SSD i don't think the failure rate is as high on those.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&name=Solid-State-Disks

1.2 million hours MTBF, that means it might outlast you.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136365

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

Fixin to go get it:burnout: 8 gig of memory, phenom procesor quad core, 20 inch monitor, 2. summin hertzadoogie,

yeah whatever all that above means

shoot this should reeeaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy be interesting

just on question?

does it take a 9/16ths or 14 mm to install?:dontknow:

 

[wesalbert]

We should see a "your doing it wrong" thread soon

 

[scoobert]

Fixin to go get it:burnout: 8 gig of memory, phenom procesor quad core, 20 inch monitor, 2. summin hertzadoogie,

yeah whatever all that above means

shoot this should reeeaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy be interesting

just on question?

does it take a 9/16ths or 14 mm to install?:dontknow:

you dont need 8 gigs, processor is fine.

 

[JimTeTe]

Tony
Let me know if you want your old drives data recovered.

Jim

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

I will bud
we are up, but uh,,, its gonna take some to get things all loaded and updated and the email working I guess

but wooooweeee its fast!:burnout:

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

"T" its a hp unit, 20 inch hp2009m screen

hp e9220y hard drive amd phenon II x4 910 processor
8 gb ddr3 system recovery
1 terabyte hard drive
hp easy back up for files
15-1 card reader
personal media bay
tons of usb ports
windows home 7 version
some other software mess
very freakin quiet
Direct Connect Architecture
8GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM
Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
2MB L2 cache memory
ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface and 7 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
Built-in wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g/n)
10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet LAN
Processor Speed 2.6GHz

 

[wesalbert]

"T" its a hp unit, 20 inch hp2009m screen

hp e9220y hard drive amd phenon II x4 910 processor
8 gb ddr3 system recovery
1 terabyte hard drive
hp easy back up for files
15-1 card reader
personal media bay
tons of usb ports
windows home 7 version
some other software mess
very freakin quiet
Direct Connect Architecture
8GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM
Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
2MB L2 cache memory
ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface and 7 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
Built-in wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g/n)
10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet LAN
Processor Speed 2.6GHz

Note the red Use it

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

Note the red Use it

ya dang skippy buddy

 

[ZCx]

"T" its a hp unit, 20 inch hp2009m screen

hp e9220y hard drive amd phenon II x4 910 processor
8 gb ddr3 system recovery
1 terabyte hard drive
hp easy back up for files
15-1 card reader
personal media bay
tons of usb ports
windows home 7 version
some other software mess
very freakin quiet
Direct Connect Architecture
8GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM
Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
2MB L2 cache memory
ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface and 7 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
Built-in wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g/n)
10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet LAN
Processor Speed 2.6GHz[/quote)

i can relate to the "very freakin quiet" part Tony. the new compared to the old, old was garbage disposal loud

:rock: :elefant: :rock: :elefant:

 

[JTS VENOM PERFORMANCE]

most def bro now if I can jsut figure out the email crap