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Finally back online, but...
11 years ago
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So the old computer is finally back up and running. So here's what happened, and it's kind of a funny story:
Although I wasn't home when it happened, from what I could piece together (after talking with some of my neighbors), what may have caused it to fail was because of a storm recently. Basically, a bolt of lightning struck not too far away, taking out a couple of my neighbor's appliances, and causing a surge that fried my hard drive. So I get back home, turn the comp back on, and insta-dead. Needless to say, it also wouldn't have happened if the battery backup I've had for about a month did it's job, so that had to be replaced on top of it as well. But, things should be getting back to normal now.
Hopefully things like that won't happen again, but the problem now is that some of the things that got wiped out with the HD were some things I was working on recently or hoping to get around to later, and didn't get backed up yet because I'm an idiot. Especially the badge I was still working on for Megaplex so I'm still kinda bummed about that.
...Well, at least the motherboard didn't get fried too.
I'll try to get a sketch or something out sometime soon in the meantime.
Although I wasn't home when it happened, from what I could piece together (after talking with some of my neighbors), what may have caused it to fail was because of a storm recently. Basically, a bolt of lightning struck not too far away, taking out a couple of my neighbor's appliances, and causing a surge that fried my hard drive. So I get back home, turn the comp back on, and insta-dead. Needless to say, it also wouldn't have happened if the battery backup I've had for about a month did it's job, so that had to be replaced on top of it as well. But, things should be getting back to normal now.
Hopefully things like that won't happen again, but the problem now is that some of the things that got wiped out with the HD were some things I was working on recently or hoping to get around to later, and didn't get backed up yet because I'm an idiot. Especially the badge I was still working on for Megaplex so I'm still kinda bummed about that.
...Well, at least the motherboard didn't get fried too.
I'll try to get a sketch or something out sometime soon in the meantime.
Usually when a hdd is fried from over voltage it is either the circuit board or the power tvs diodes that fry. If you are handy with a soldering iron you can bridge the diodes to see if the drive comes back so you can save data and if that doesn't work you can do the circuit board trick above.
At this point, it doesn't really matter, since it's all said and done, but still not bad advice to keep in mind.