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307
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 7:54 pm: | 
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This time I bought a U.P.S. for my computer...I took my hard drive to a recovery shop in Orlando , 100 bucks an hour , 2 hours later , they declared it dead..Anyways , Western Digital 80 Gig/7200RPM/8 Meg Cashe..$99 , not bad but 2 days to rebuild her and 3 days to reload all my software and get it running right...I have returned.... |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 8:51 pm: |
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307 i know it well....... i have CDR's in both my computers and write any needed files such as photos at least once a week.... the power here in seminole gliches all the time and my UPS is 3 for 3 it didnt work! .... not to be detured i bought another one. |
Czar
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 9:12 pm: |
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Good to hear you are back !!!! Data recovery can be a real pain at the best and useless at the worst.Hope the new system is good to go !!! |
Tech833
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 10:01 pm: |
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I wish computers were as easy to rebuild as transmitters. |
Taz
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 11:24 pm: |
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Uhh, computers are easier to rebuild than transmitters.
Just when you sit down infront of it is when challenges usually occur that mot people cant fix. |
CM 3885
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 11:34 pm: |
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No kidding! Some of us are computer literate but some stuff is wayyyy beyond me! Guess its time for me to go back to school and get some more training! LOL |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 1:10 am: |
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307
What kind of a HD was is?
How come 3 days to rebuild just cause of a bad hd? |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 1:15 am: |
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Hey 833,
I can put together a computer from scratch with a raid card, 4 HDD, single processor, decent size case, 2 case fans in about 1 1/2 - 2 hours and have it configured software loaded and dual booting with linux and xp in about another 2 hours.
lets say around 4-5 hours.
Oranges to Apples,
How long would it take you to do that with a transmitter, since I havent ever built one. |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 1:18 am: |
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Just wondering on copper forum members thoughts but how would a computer department to copper electronics sound?
I could have 2 of my favorite hobbies, both sold by the same company. hehe |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 5:09 am: |
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I started building computers from scrach back when i got involved with the challenger program in 1990 and over the next 12 years I built dozzens for handicapped kids at the little league . As a matter of cost i have built all of mine since then the last 2 being this 2.53GIG P4 and with wifes gameing computer a 2.4gig P4 sometimes you realy dont save much money but come " FIXIT TIME" its like the old heathkits ..... i hear horror stories about store brands like 2 years later no parts and no help ....... NO THANKS. |
307
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 6:57 am: |
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Taz , It was a Western Digital and only about 1 year old. I had a TON of stuff on it from Copper as well as other projects however I only backed so much of it up being so busy...I learned...
307 |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 9:03 am: |
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307 i bought a cdrom writer after my hard drive crashed with all my little league records from 1990 -1997 on it i got lucky a friend who worked on main-frames managed to recover the data and NEVER again would i trust any drive! NOW everything is put on Cd's and 2 copys are made one stored on a cd holder ziped up... and the other in my fire safe....for 25 cents a cd disk it makes no sence to do it any other way. |
Taz
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 12:52 am: |
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Also, ZIP and JAZZ drives are excelent for that too bruce. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 11:29 pm: |
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Just added 540 megs of ram to my hp,no more banzai,had 220 but dvd driver shared it,puter kept trying to write to rom,according to it thats death city. |
Taz
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 12:24 am: |
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what operating system are you running?
win98 95 and ME can only use 512, and after that it doesnt know what to do with it.
Win2k and XP on the otherhand can do up to 4gigs.
Cheers,
Taz |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 1:50 pm: |
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CORRECT win 95 98 will freque out at 1 gig i even had a board lock up this board was used very well on xp at 1.5 gig bottom line to be safe use 256 meg if you use a 128 meg vidio card and your safe YES vidio ram will count too been there done that with 98 now 98 SE is more forgivin it works fine with 512 meg and a 128 meg video card but do you NEED 500 MEG ????? i built my wife a 2.4 gig p4 and over 500 meg of ram it went bonkers i guess when 98 came out no one even dreamed of THAT much ram.
My system
2.53 gig p4
1 gig ram
128 meg video
100 gig hd
XP system |
Taz
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 7:26 pm: |
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Now, certain versions of *nix cant take up to 100's of gigs. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 10:49 pm: |
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Windows xp,hp pavilion 514n,only enough physical room for 760 megs,but it's all I need,the cd writer shares 64 megs of it.You couldn't run paltalk,msn,the cd player and download things at the same time,a blue error screen would come up,do a mini dump of memmory and shut things down so as not to destroy my system,very annoying.One other thing got rid of a program called PYTHON from the Pose corp.all greek to me,don't know how I got it,it left a lot of fragmented files,on the defragg window it showed a red bar 3/8 inch wide,defragg took care of it. |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 5:33 am: |
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Big bob Time for a new computer like i built .... tell the wife its a GUY thing ! HE HE HE |
Orion
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2003 - 5:56 pm: |
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Backup-backup-backup..name of the game. I generally chuck everything on my drive to disc. Losing years worth of data is like having your house burn down when it comes to records and information, a real disaster. I had a drive go on me once when I was relatively new to PC's. Some disaster: I lost video game downloads and other worthless nonsense, but today? Whew! Can't afford that happening. |
Wyatt_Earp
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2003 - 9:44 pm: |
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I built mine and getting ready to build another one. I am also going to ITT Tech to get my computer/electronics degree. |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 7:47 am: |
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When i went to electronics school on the early 60's a computer was called a slide ruler..... Like most here i got draged into the computer world back in the mid 70's and yep even have my comodore 64 .... it works! I back up everything on CD's my latest machine has 2 52X cd rom writerslike others i learned painfull lessions when a drive said by by.
Wyatt ITT hummmmmm well i hope the job market is better in texas here in tampa its poor at best like it was when i finshed 4 years of school in 67 and by 70 when i got out of the army ..... zero jobs. Next generation of radios could be softwhere controled you program up a blank radio to be what ever you want ..... cool |
Highlander
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 9:38 am: |
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I can't seem to find a good freeware or shareware backup program that will span an archive over several cd's---anyone know an easy way to do this? |
