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Rottweiler
12-12-2005, 06:15 AM
At a friends to let ya all know I think my power supply went Ka-blooie... so I'm gone from the boards, AIM, everything...until I can get a replacement. :(
Tarkenchi
12-12-2005, 06:29 AM
awwww.... Rotty.:( You better get it fixed fast man!
Poison
12-12-2005, 06:36 AM
Good luck with that, bro.
The Widowed
12-12-2005, 08:03 AM
I understand that power supplies themselves aren't that costly to replace. The only serious problem is if your power supply cut out while the hard drive was being accessed, resulting in damaged sectors and such.

Can any techies out there back me up on this?
Inertial
12-12-2005, 11:13 AM
Well that can happen, now a days its less of a risk since as the evils of fat32 formatting are gone. NTFS formatting is a good deal more stable and less prone to causeing damage on your drive.

I've gone through two power supplies in about as many years, the last one being a spiffy ole 600 watter (don't ask how I blow em 6 fans and other stuff is a drain). My hard drives are still spinning fine and free of damaged sectors.
Rottweiler
12-12-2005, 12:48 PM
Actualy, folks, false alarm. My comp is fine, it was just my really-old surge protector/backup power source. No hard drive problems detected as of yet.

Carry on and mods, do yo thang.
Overbite
12-12-2005, 07:15 PM
LOL false alarms can sometimes be a good thing.
Rottweiler
12-13-2005, 01:28 PM
UGH! This stupid spyware crap now. I'm glad I got the computer back up and running but DANG! This @#$%ing "smitfraud c" thing... anyone know how to clear this crap out?
Malibu Sally
12-13-2005, 01:33 PM
UGH! This stupid spyware crap now. I'm glad I got the computer back up and running but DANG! This @#$%ing "smitfraud c" thing... anyone know how to clear this crap out?
Yeah. Stop hitting those porn websites. :shinner: ;)

I'm sure Kinetix and/or Wids will launch into the "Ad Aware is evil and you only need Microsoft's Spyware detector" mantra at any moment. :P
GreyWolf
12-13-2005, 01:35 PM
Ohh snap on that one.
Rottweiler
12-13-2005, 05:33 PM
Methinks Sally speaks from experience.


/touche!
The Widowed
12-14-2005, 12:23 AM
I'm sure Kinetix and/or Wids will launch into the "Ad Aware is evil and you only need Microsoft's Spyware detector" mantra at any moment. :P
Get out. I never advocated Microsoft's Spyware Ignorer BETA. I advocated Spyware Ignorer and Spybot and the trial version of Spyware Doctor running together. That's what our computer had, after all. :P

Of course, that was before we knew better. We figured out that if the trial version of SD was so superior to Spybot, Ad-Aware or *gag* Microsoft's spyware-overlooking wonder, then the full version of SD was quite likely to kick the living crap out of every byte of spyware known to man. So now that SD won the big trial-version pit fight, our computer's only running the full, registered, paid-good-money-for Spyware Doctor. And that's the only one you need. :cool: