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154829	2003-06-25 02:23:00	ok ran that trojan thing and found nothing!!! but have been talking to our friend who was the lineman on the job from pole / car accident ( boss : management position/ field manager) and said more than likely it is suffering from power surge due from being plugged in (but not on) at time of accident... and he said get a new puter cos it will be on its way out from this surge... is this true ? will it eventually die? will it have unseen or unrepairable faults due to this? beetle	beetle (243)
154830	2003-06-25 03:35:00	How long ago was the surge? anyway,ive seen complety scrambled puters that have had a surge running beautiful after a format.Having said that,ive seen more die complety and instantly. Harddrive's can be very fickle.But once they start to go.....there isn't anything that can be done to save them.Even if they can be stabilised they soon start to go bad again. And no i didnt mean leave your puter running indefinitly,just that while it is running to start making back-ups.(my sugestion is to have a secondary harddrive and store an image of your os on it,plus a back up of each and every file worth keeping,i also back up all my personal stuff to cd). Cant comment on the lineman's opinion,id just make snide comments so ill keep them to myself.....alough i hear the rubbish men know quite a bit about potential speeds of Jetstream. Make a real backup,then sit back and see if the puter continues to have issues.	metla (154)
154831	2003-06-25 03:50:00	this guy is good at his job and he has always been on the mark before, and since he sees this sort of thing quite a lot, i think he may be write about those sort of things, he wouldnt be where he is if he didnt know anything would he? lately i feel that this thing is inconsistent, works great some days sometimes not since last week, (accident / surge on wednesday) we were down for hours, phone system and puters, 7.15 am till at least 12.00noon and i dont know how to all that stuff, just saved my info to disk. school work and pictures are my main problem, but they are saved onto disk. had more problems trying to save my finished essay today, wouldnt do it about 4-5 go to get it to write to disk today though. and every now and again it closes or loses windows.? gone back to being sluggish with PF1 too? what do you mean real back up? apart from this school stuff doesnt worry me if i lose the rest as most of it is just cleaner programs and OE or ? dunno ? beetle	beetle (243)
154832	2003-06-25 04:10:00	Sorry,i was doing my best not to knock the lineman,im sure he knows his stuff.... Having said that,i wouldnt ask anyone outside the field about computer problems.Infact,if im looking for answer's i genarally do research through many sources rather then asking a linesman, Saving to a cd is what i would term a "real" back up,That is a backup that wont be lost if the hard drive fails. I would suggest putting a surge protector inbetween your computer and the hotpoint,preferably one that has a phone socket as well.	metla (154)
154833	2003-06-25 04:23:00	i didnt ask as such he called round on the day when he was organising his men to fix it ( the power) and said it would be down for such a period of time and would stuff up anything thatwas plugged in at the time. (hes a boss not a lowly worker, and yes he knows computers) they had to replace other items from different places not just ours. and our computer / phone installers boss has said it too. at first thier seemed to be know undue probs, and even their system failed at the time off this power surge, so they in same boat as us. but on cold start its slow and when been running a while the screens / pages keep closing. thought it was a mouse problem but it does it when im not even touching mouse either.? anyway have to go out so it will get a rest and ill see what happens later. thanxs for all help, too much brain strain for me at moment. but problems dont just go away. in my experience they just get worse on computers. beetle	beetle (243)
154834	2003-06-25 04:24:00	And just to elaborate a little more,even if all signs point to the power surge,the mere fact that the advice given was its ruined,get a new one is proof that the wrong persons advice was given. Sorry to be blunt,but thats the way i am,and the linesman advice imo should be dismissed. But i aint saying the power surge hasn't caused the problem	metla (154)
154835	2003-06-25 04:24:00	ps computer clock is out again.. and ive sysnchronised it daily since wednesday.... seems to lose about 5 mins by the time i notice. beetle	beetle (243)
154836	2003-06-25 04:28:00	Dunno about the cold having any effect,I have my computer set up in a sleep-out with no ceiling,i sit out here at 2am in the morning and it gets so cold i lose feeling in my feet. Doesn't seem to affect my puter in anyway. And computer clocks are notiosly bad for losing a few minutes here and there.	metla (154)
154837	2003-06-25 04:32:00	:p you do not know in what reference he said it and how i type it is not always how some one says it. and it was not meant to be disparaging to myself or himself, he has looked at the other one and has in the past been caught out himself. and you dont know power either. and i admit i dont know these two things, but i do not jump down peoples throats when you were not part of the conversation at the time. so please do not spout what some people know, when you dont know either. no offense but you do talk about being blunt. and i can be blunt to, but not here and not now beetle	beetle (243)
154838	2003-06-25 04:35:00	Tragic. Anyhow,no offence mean't and i hope you get it sorted.	metla (154)
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