Hot Stuff For The Hellbound Hard Drives
As I sit here watching quite the delectably doughnut filled episode of "Monster Garage", I ponder the day's events. It was a long one, dear reader.
My stud of a work PC died. May I have a moment of silence please? I came back this morning from some time out of the office, to a nasty "I'm not booting, bitch," error message. Ugh. A nice restart got me into my OS, but I knew the end was near. I backup quite often, to our network and to disc, but I wanted fresh data, so I started a new burn. In the middle of said burn, death became him. I rip the sucker open and it is white hot! My two serial 120GB drives are toasty and I know their time here on this Earth has come to an end. Three of the five fans are dead plus the processor heat sink fan is intermittent at best. What the fuck? After much troubleshooting, I replace the board, the power supply and tomorrow morning come two spanking new hard drives. Nasty mess, indeed. What I figure is because the MB and power supply went all freaky-deaky, the fans died and the overheating trashed the drives. Oh yeah, it was frustrating, but I finally got those damn front-end USB jumpers down! I hate those jumpers.