| Re: 12 FEB 21 |
Subject: Re: 12 FEB 21 by teebee on 2021/2/12 18:12:11 Morning..still. Kind of chilly here too, 0 now with an expected high of 6....oh boy what fun. Went to look at a small cabinet job last evening and when I came home to do the drawings, I find my CAD computer (a WinXP machine because my CAD program won't run on anything newer) is down...won't start......CRAP! So I start going through my "backup computers" trying to find one with WinXP so I can load the CAD. Find one (takes about an hour and a half because I have to clean it off of the old data), get CAD loaded, but it requires a license file which is on a 3.5 floppy disk...the floppy drive won't read it. So now I'm trying to find a computer with a floppy drive, that works, to copy the file on to an flash drive to copy onto the computer......That's a no go. So I take the HDD out of the "dead" computer to try and pull the file off it. I throw it into my docking station and try to access it. It comes up with an error message but offers to "find and fix" the issues. I'm not optimistic, but to my surprise, it says all problems were fixed. So I find the file and copy it to the flash drive. Then I install the HDD back into the computer and fire it up...to my surprise, it starts up and runs like it never had a problem. I decide to go ahead and prep the other computer as a "Ready Backup". By this time it is 1AM. I head for bed. I wake up at 8 and come right down to start the drawings so I can figure a price. I fire up the CAD machine and begin. I turn to my internet machine (behind me) and log into the cabinet company site and then smell an electrical burning odor. Turn around to find the CAD machine down......SH!T. I reach around to pull it out and find the power supply is quite HOT...OH, OK that's what caused the problem before, it failed and corrupted the HDD. So, last night while hunting through my supply of computers for a 3.5 that worked, I decided that I was going to go through those computers and trash those that had issues and save any parts that might be of service. One of the parts I saved from one of them was a fairly new power supply, so I install that into the CAD machine and fire it up....IT WORKS! I'm finally (I hope) done with all this stuff. Staying inside today. |
