This morning I started up my computer, as always then went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and get ready to face the world. When I came out, the computer was off. I just muttered to myself "not good, not good at all". And started it back up and went off to do something else. When I came back, it was off again. So I had to sit down and babysit it. Sure enough, after loading Windows, *shabang*, off it went like someone had just pulled the plug on it. Tried a bunch of times and sometimes it would run for a few seconds, other times for a couple of minutes.
Long story short, it appears I may have a bad power supply. Talked to tech support for the computer (luckily I got a three year warranty on it) but the guy said he needed to confer with his supervisor (he's not sure if I have to send the box back in, or if they can get a local tech to swap it - this is a real heavy duty power supply, so there must be something special about swapping it out) and get back to me, but of course he never did.
So my main machine is sitting in the den with it's guts spilled out all over the floor. Doing the troubleshooting, I had to pull out a bunch of cables and crap. Sure hope I can remember how to put it all back together again.
But in any event, I'm not keen on shipping my computer off anywhere. There is all kinds of data on my hard drives I really don't want just anyone getting access to. Not to mention cookies that will autofill passwords to things like my PayPal accounts, and orders from customers with credit card info. I think I have a file on there with all the passwords to my sites and servers as well, in case I go brain dead someday and forget them.
So, we'll see.......
In the meantime, I'm using my old computer.
Oh, what I meant by "close to the edge"..... If this had happened last week when I was working on my taxes and the computer had taken a dump before I finished and had ALL my data locked up on the system, I would have had an embolism for certain. I can feel my head creaking just thinking about it.....
:bang:
Long story short, it appears I may have a bad power supply. Talked to tech support for the computer (luckily I got a three year warranty on it) but the guy said he needed to confer with his supervisor (he's not sure if I have to send the box back in, or if they can get a local tech to swap it - this is a real heavy duty power supply, so there must be something special about swapping it out) and get back to me, but of course he never did.
So my main machine is sitting in the den with it's guts spilled out all over the floor. Doing the troubleshooting, I had to pull out a bunch of cables and crap. Sure hope I can remember how to put it all back together again.
But in any event, I'm not keen on shipping my computer off anywhere. There is all kinds of data on my hard drives I really don't want just anyone getting access to. Not to mention cookies that will autofill passwords to things like my PayPal accounts, and orders from customers with credit card info. I think I have a file on there with all the passwords to my sites and servers as well, in case I go brain dead someday and forget them.
So, we'll see.......
In the meantime, I'm using my old computer.
Oh, what I meant by "close to the edge"..... If this had happened last week when I was working on my taxes and the computer had taken a dump before I finished and had ALL my data locked up on the system, I would have had an embolism for certain. I can feel my head creaking just thinking about it.....
:bang: