Tonight I got a bit bummed.
We have been working hard at rebuilding the house after the June flood and so many people have been helpful and generous with their time and their money. We were particularly grateful that a handful of people were able to get into our house to remove a few things as the water was rising because we were out of town at the time and could not be here to get anything to safety. But not everything has worked out well.
We finally got to the stage where since most of the luan is down, we can start to store stuff in the basement and it won't get covered with debris from the first floor as we continue to work. So we have called on everyone who came over to the house and took stuff out while the water rose to return it so we could store it in the basement.
Among the things returned were four of our computers. My daughter's computer came back a week ago, today my wife's, my experimental model and my DAW all came back. One other computer died in the flood. All I got back were the CPU cases. All the mice, keyboards and 8 CRTs died in the flood.
I hooked up my daughter's last week but it would only boot in safe mode. I uninstalled all the drivers and removed from the registry all the startup programs and removed them from the Start\Startup folder as well. But it is a no go. Testing the MB revealed probs. Examining the case revealed serious dents. It was most likely dropped while being removed from the house. We purchased a replacement. Disappointing but ok.
Tonight I set up my wife's and I notice that screws were missing from the case. Someone removed the extra hard drive, the video card was unseated and the DVD drive was still there but unplugged from the power supply. It booted up but does not work. One IDE port is unresponsive and the CD/DVD is intermittent on the IDE port that will work. I start to feel a bit more anxious.
So on to my DAW. Oh no, the memory was in backwards and unseated, a hard drive attached to a PCI IDE add on card was gone, the DVD drive was disconnected and the video card was unscrewed and unseated. I put in new memory and reseated everything. The MB lights up but this machine is dead. It will not beep or boot. The drive missing was an easily removable one (from inside the case) that I was using on a video project I had just started before the flood. So my DAW is dead. It was getting late so I came back to the FEMA trailer. Tomorrow I'll have to determine what components are still alive.
I am suspicious that one of the people who came to my house to get stuff out before the flood may have tried to go through my computer cases to see what might be useful. I had already noticed that four large capacity hard drives that were on a cushion next to my computer when I left for vacation never turned up in the debris or in a box. Those drives are gone. Also my Windows XP pro distribution disk was found in its folder with a few DVD's removed from the house but the installation key code had been ripped off the back of the folder.
I am so bummed. My BU hard drive died in the flood where I had it hidden. I so hope that the hard drives in my DAW still live because they contain all my musical work since Cakewalk apprentice 1. My video work is on those missing four drives.
I am so sooo bummed. Thanks for listening that's all I needed except maybe recommendations for a new DAW/Video Editing MB.
We have been working hard at rebuilding the house after the June flood and so many people have been helpful and generous with their time and their money. We were particularly grateful that a handful of people were able to get into our house to remove a few things as the water was rising because we were out of town at the time and could not be here to get anything to safety. But not everything has worked out well.
We finally got to the stage where since most of the luan is down, we can start to store stuff in the basement and it won't get covered with debris from the first floor as we continue to work. So we have called on everyone who came over to the house and took stuff out while the water rose to return it so we could store it in the basement.
Among the things returned were four of our computers. My daughter's computer came back a week ago, today my wife's, my experimental model and my DAW all came back. One other computer died in the flood. All I got back were the CPU cases. All the mice, keyboards and 8 CRTs died in the flood.
I hooked up my daughter's last week but it would only boot in safe mode. I uninstalled all the drivers and removed from the registry all the startup programs and removed them from the Start\Startup folder as well. But it is a no go. Testing the MB revealed probs. Examining the case revealed serious dents. It was most likely dropped while being removed from the house. We purchased a replacement. Disappointing but ok.
Tonight I set up my wife's and I notice that screws were missing from the case. Someone removed the extra hard drive, the video card was unseated and the DVD drive was still there but unplugged from the power supply. It booted up but does not work. One IDE port is unresponsive and the CD/DVD is intermittent on the IDE port that will work. I start to feel a bit more anxious.
So on to my DAW. Oh no, the memory was in backwards and unseated, a hard drive attached to a PCI IDE add on card was gone, the DVD drive was disconnected and the video card was unscrewed and unseated. I put in new memory and reseated everything. The MB lights up but this machine is dead. It will not beep or boot. The drive missing was an easily removable one (from inside the case) that I was using on a video project I had just started before the flood. So my DAW is dead. It was getting late so I came back to the FEMA trailer. Tomorrow I'll have to determine what components are still alive.
I am suspicious that one of the people who came to my house to get stuff out before the flood may have tried to go through my computer cases to see what might be useful. I had already noticed that four large capacity hard drives that were on a cushion next to my computer when I left for vacation never turned up in the debris or in a box. Those drives are gone. Also my Windows XP pro distribution disk was found in its folder with a few DVD's removed from the house but the installation key code had been ripped off the back of the folder.
I am so bummed. My BU hard drive died in the flood where I had it hidden. I so hope that the hard drives in my DAW still live because they contain all my musical work since Cakewalk apprentice 1. My video work is on those missing four drives.
I am so sooo bummed. Thanks for listening that's all I needed except maybe recommendations for a new DAW/Video Editing MB.