Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:50:45PM -0500, George Georgalis insinuated: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >thanks for the suggestion. after a bunch of hard-drive swapping with > >another functional computer, i'm pretty sure it's the hard drive just > >gone beserk. :(

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-30 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: >on Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:41:21AM -0600, Gerald Livingston insinuated: >> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 >> Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much >> > of

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:41:21AM -0600, Gerald Livingston insinuated: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much > > of the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 > > m

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 4:24 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much of > the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 miles > across the frozen Midwest. i've done this lo

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:35:24AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:24:18AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > >right ... i forgot to mention (important, i realize) that not only > > >was [the computer] in the car for 4 days, it was also in the car

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Kent West
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:24:18AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: right ... i forgot to mention (important, i realize) that not only was [the computer] in the car for 4 days, it was also in the car when it hit a deer going quite fast. So, h

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:24:18AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > >right ... i forgot to mention (important, i realize) that not only > >was [the computer] in the car for 4 days, it was also in the car > >when it hit a deer going quite fast. > > > > > > So, how fast was t

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Kent West
Nori Heikkinen wrote: right ... i forgot to mention (important, i realize) that not only was [the computer] in the car for 4 days, it was also in the car when it hit a deer going quite fast. So, how fast was the deer going? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:02:25PM -0500, John Lavin insinuated: > Gerald Livingston said: > > Is this a desktop or laptop system? If it's a desktop box that's > > been carried around I would suggest you get a clean shutdown then > > open the box and remove everything that plugs in (cards, memory, > >

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 25 Dec 2002 03:12:56PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund insinuated: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much > > of the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 > > miles ac

computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 From: Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > . . . my computer has spend much of the past four days in the trunk of > various cars schlepping 1000 miles across the frozen Midwest. . . . Condensation. Pull plugs; use a hairdryer. Or let it sit a few hours, un

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much of > the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 miles > across the frozen Midwest. i've done this lots of times before, but > usua

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread John Lavin
Gerald Livingston said: > Is this a desktop or laptop system? If it's a desktop box that's been > carried around I would suggest you get a clean shutdown then open the > box and remove everything that plugs in (cards, memory, maybe even cpu) > then put it all back in. Thermal expansion/contraction

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > i have a couple questions, one of which is rather open-ended. what do > you think could have caused this? was it the cold? do hard drives > poo from being frozen? It is possible that the spindles in the hard drives could have been damaged from

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Nori Heikkinen writes: > this time, though, i got my computer home, plugged it in, and it appears > to be suffering from some kind of degenerative disease. Open it up and re-seat every connector and socketed component. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin --

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:24:49 -0600 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much of > the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 miles > across the frozen Midwest. i've done this lots of times before, but > usua

computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
due to circumstances beyond my control, my computer has spend much of the past four days in the trunk of various cars schlepping 1000 miles across the frozen Midwest. i've done this lots of times before, but usually the trip takes half as long, and is much colder. this time, though, i got my comp