Had a user call reporting their computer shutting off suddenly. On reboot, they received the message “On last operation CPU reported a thermal event” Well.. This told me that the CPU fan had probably choked and the CPU had overheated causing the PC shut down. Upon inspection I found my initial thought was only partially … Read more
This is another post that got lost in the WordPress conversion.
A good friend of mine called me a few weeks back having trouble with his modem….. I know, that title and first line probably remind you of one of those jokes… A horse, Rabbit, and Turtle went into a bar… Anyway, we had just had a large set of storms here in town and this was really of no surprise as I had been playing fix-it already that day. Turns out that lightning had come in on his phone line and fried his modem…
I have to say that my initial impression of Mozy Backup was not that great. Besides the abundance of outgoing bandwidth at my server the initial backup was very slow. I was only sending up a little over 1.5 gig of data and, it took the better part of a day to complete. But, now … Read more
Well, after great thought and study, I've decided to go with Mozy as my online back-up choice. I've set up the account and have installed the clients. One server and one desktop client. My server has a tremendous amount of bandwidth so, I thought I would do it's initial back-up first. So far I'm not … Read more
I am interested in another layer of back-up for my important files and have considered trying one of the online back-up services. There seem to be a quite a few out there and most of them offer a free version, paid personal, and business. Anyone have any experience with these??? IDrive-E free:2GB of storage space … Read more
Ok.. I’m ready. I have a machine built and Vista Ultimate installed. I used the following hardware for this new PC:
I chose the ASUS board because of the 1066 mhz Front side Bus and DDR2 800 mhz RAM support. And, because I like ASUS, their boards are generally fairly reliable.
Windows ultimate installed perfectly. No need to install any drivers except the RAID on the motherboard. Otherwise it looks like Microsoft has started to get their act together.
Everyone’s seen it… You are surfing the web or working on a project for work when…. Everything Freezes up! AAAAARRRRGGGG… (no, this isnt an ad for Geek Squad!).
What caused it? Spyware? Virus? Cheese? It’s really hard to tell. Lots of things can cause the dreaded “Freeze”. After cursing furiously, you reboot and continue your work..(if you were a good boy/girl and actually saved it!?) But what caused it????
When this starts happening, think about what may have changed lately.. Did you: