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So my PC is dead
Dottonedan:
Thanks all for the input. What the IT guys were saying, is that since they cant look at it themselves, to take it to a repair shop. Best Buy was named but loosely just as a for example.
I took it to a local guy here in town. My guess is the PC in it is bad. Ha!
Or it could be that old Corel program with some kind of virus. they have a poor immune system.
I appreciate the assistance. Sine I don't know my power supply from my food supply, I will let the techs tell me it's fried and will cost $1 million for retrieval.
mk162:
The most for retrieval I have seen is less than $3k. Most of the time drives still spin and you can pull the data off. One time mine didn't and it had to be dismantled and put into another drive. I did get a 150GB external hard drive out of the deal though.
inkman996:
It really does sound like a bad PSU any PC repair guy worth their salt will have a meter to test the out puts and confirm, would literally take them seconds.
hazeremover:
--- Quote from: mk162 on March 02, 2012, 08:36:20 AM ---A good UPS will last years, I have had much better luck with those than a regular surge protector or suppressor. In the 8 years I have been running a UPS, I have not had 1 hard drive fail. Before that about 1 a year would go down.
--- End quote ---
x2! When I was a noob with my Macs, I never gave a second thought about power supplies and surge protectors and happily got by with the low buck strips. After I had two mother boards fry up like bacon after power surges, my Mac IT guru insisted I run a UPS. I run the largest capacity UPS's I can find behind all my towers, printers and everything digital in my studio and never looked back.
All this digital hardware and the work that I create with it is too important to mess around with having my investments go up in smoke from something as simple as a thunderstorm or numbskull work crews digging nearby.
ScreenFoo:
PSU seems like at least 70% of the non-data failures I've seen... It's worth having a spare on hand, IMHO. Bad power is especially hard on them as well. Although I'd say get a quality UPS if you get one, a junky one will have crappy batteries you have to replace far too often.
LOL @ Evo --he's right on--take that thing out for rifle practice before you take it to Best Buy--They aren't even trustworthy for discount peripherals, from what I've experienced.
The last component I got there "on special" was a video card which had an incorrect bios chip for the processor. The guy instantly copped an attitude when I said it, snarling "They don't sell processors like that this cheap", so I asked him to google it and confirm his suspicions. No other customers at the counter. TEN MINUTES LATER he came back to admit that I was right, and give me a refund. Talk about slow on a number of levels.
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