Termyn8or
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People who have known me for a long time know I have had guns pointed right at me and it didn't faze me a bit. Not wanting to go off into that, the topic at hand :
My PC is old and not only that, sometimes finicky, might even call it cranky. Today I realized how old and indeed cranky. The other day someone returned my extra eighty gig harddrive and I was really looking forward to using it. I would move all my current videos onto it and then again I can download. See I got an eighty now, but I only have about seven gigs left.
I had forgotten just how cranky this SOB can be. It is also old and when I got down there to put the other drive in, I realized just how old. The thing is encased with dust. I haven't even touched it inside for probably a year and now I remember why. It works but it sure acts like it doesn't want to.
It was like a knock down drag out fight. I set the jumper to slave because I already have an OS obviously, grabbed an extra power plug and plugged it in. Of course it said configuration changed but when I went to setup it said that neither harddrive was installed. There's two of them right there you dumb mutha fu----- nevermind.
Finicky ? Here's what I mean by finicky. The only kind of HD that I can get to work in this thing is a Diamondmax. Ever since I put that in it has failed to recognize any other drives. I have tried everything, putting other drives on the secondary where you normally connect the burner and/orDVD ROMs. It's like it's married. I did have full backup at one time and reverted to the old drive, but they were the same type.
Well, it's not only finicky, it is also cranky. I have been through this before, but now it is worth it more than ever because I am really pressed for HD space. It fought back in it's usual way. For a while it refuses to accept any HD even the one that was just running a few minutes ago. It does this to me every time.
It resists change I guess. I think the problem might actually be bad solder joints on the mobo. That's the only thing that makes any sense. But this thing is too old to go through any hoops to save, and I think it knows it.
I know for a fact it needs filters, I can hear a buzz in the speakers when I move the mouse. I can also hear eeks and squeaks when it boots. The problem now is I want this backup and a second HD is the only effective way. Well the fastest anyway. This is XP so it will not migrate to another PC. I used to like that about 98SE, you could throw your HD in another PC and after a bunch of telling it OK, OK, OK it will run. Unfortunately XP will not, and I don't have the space for another reinstall.
So I want to put all my backup, cookies and all on this other drive and put that as a secondary in another newr PC. That way I don't destroy this one and it could be a backup.
I get it now, get a PC lose your stuff. Reget it, and reget it and reget it. Then you get newer and newer nad newer, but what was wrong with older and older and older ? This works for me, it is fast enough, and if I ever learned anything in life it is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
As some may know I live in a double house and we share internet. I could transfer all the files to the other PC and then what ? And that would include all my porn and all that. Put my spare drive in his PC ? I guess I could do that, but just remember what I am saying, this is only necessary because this PC is haunted or something.
I mean why would connecting an extra HD to the secondary IDE channel make it not recognize the boot drive on the primary channel ? I have been all over setup in the BIOS and everything, I know my way around and made it a point to know my way around when comes to something of mine. The fact is, no matter what I do if I put any other HDs in this thing it just doesn't see any anymore, and then it seems to cop an attitude. I am serious. I have built and serviced PCs and I am not stupid, I really think I got one that is haunted.
I know there is some technical explaination we don't want. For example that the HD is so much more advanced than the mobo that when it configures itself it's map is so big there is no room for another map nor even interlace, and copping an attitude would be the mobo returning to defaults which can take time. I know all that, but there is one other thing.
In BIOS the floppy disk is disabled. The drive is physically not connected, period. But for some reason it shows up in Windows Explorer. Both 98SE and XP did this. I mean disconnected and disabled, it still shows up. I don't care how much of a PC wiz you are, explain that one.
I say this thing is haunted. I think I shall burn it at the stake once I am settled into a more hallowable PC. It's haunted I tell you !
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