My PC at home has failed again. I think it may have breathed its last.
I will probably be offline and unable to post in the evenings for the
next few days at least. Posting this from work whilst on night duty
for the EU summit and hoping the night will not be too long ...

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Hi Colin

Hope your PC is on the mend. Spending the weekend in Brussels this week -
any forecast would be great?


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My PC at home has failed again. I think it may have breathed its last.
I will probably be offline and unable to post in the evenings for the
next few days at least. Posting this from work whilst on night duty
for the EU summit and hoping the night will not be too long ...

Colin Youngs
Brussels

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My PC at home has failed again. I think it may have breathed its last.
I will probably be offline and unable to post in the evenings for the
next few days at least. Posting this from work whilst on night duty
for the EU summit and hoping the night will not be too long ...

Could the processor be overheating in the recent hot weather (which I
assume Brussels has also experienced)? If so, then when the weather is
cooler again the machine may be fine (though obviously a failure
whenever it's hot is tedious, so a replacement for the chip and/or fan
might be a good idea).
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)

John Hall wrote:
wrote in message
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My PC at home has failed again. I think it may have breathed its last.
I will probably be offline and unable to post in the evenings for the
next few days at least. Posting this from work whilst on night duty
for the EU summit and hoping the night will not be too long ...

Could the processor be overheating in the recent hot weather (which I
assume Brussels has also experienced)? If so, then when the weather is
cooler again the machine may be fine (though obviously a failure
whenever it's hot is tedious, so a replacement for the chip and/or fan
might be a good idea).

My last computer had overheating problems so this one has a 120mm heat
sink on the back of the processor, plus the case is big enough to NOT
have the processor hidden behind the power supply.

Btw, I maybe updating erratically next week as my main computer will be
out of action while I send the memory sticks back to crutial before they
post me new ones. It's a long story, but memtest86 showed over 4000
error on an overnight run! Hence blue screen crashes, failing modules
and general glitches. Hopefully this will sort things out :-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

John Hall a écrit :
Could the processor be overheating in the recent hot weather (which I
assume Brussels has also experienced)? If so, then when the weather is
cooler again the machine may be fine (though obviously a failure
whenever it's hot is tedious, so a replacement for the chip and/or fan
might be a good idea).

Thanks for your comment, John, but I think the problem is simply its
age. The startup files are corrupted and I will need the help of a
computer technician to try and salvage my e-mails, e-mail address book
and bookmarks.

I have not made progress with getting my new PC linked up yet because I
came back from a 10-day holiday in Spain just a couple of days ago.

Catching up on the NG during lunch break at work via Google Groups.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

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John Hall a écrit :
Could the processor be overheating in the recent hot weather (which I
assume Brussels has also experienced)? If so, then when the weather is
cooler again the machine may be fine (though obviously a failure
whenever it's hot is tedious, so a replacement for the chip and/or fan
might be a good idea).

Thanks for your comment, John, but I think the problem is simply its
age. The startup files are corrupted and I will need the help of a
computer technician to try and salvage my e-mails, e-mail address book
and bookmarks.

You might find that all you need to do is find a friend who can
temporarily mount your hard drive as a slave in their PC.

snip

--
Surfer!
Email to: ramwater at uk2 dot net

Surfer! a écrit :
You might find that all you need to do is find a friend who can
temporarily mount your hard drive as a slave in their PC.

Thanks for that suggestion. I'll bear it in mind. Expecting the
worst, I had rescued everything from the old failing PC except the
e-mails and address book.

Colin Youngs
Brussels