Bloody fucking sucking whore computers!
 

Aye, It has has been awhile since I really played around with music so I thought; Hey, let's write something!

I tried to boot my own computer..
Following events are a dramatization:
*power on*
*screen is black a loooooong time*
*beep*
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD
CMOS Checksum BAD.
After some checks in BIOS it eventually boots up to WinXP and from there it goes wrong again;
File check...... 30%......50%....75%...
Errors found, deleting the following files; C:\Blabla, C:\Blablabla, C:\Blablablabla.

I rebooted the computer once more.. and guess what? Nada, zip, nothing! It refuses to boot. So I guess I've got the most expensive paperweight on this board. YAY!

Could have it been a Virus of some kind (not the TI of course before it gets out of hand)?

No, I've scan me computer every 2-3 days and every file that I download. I've got 5-6 viruses since I started using a PC.

Back-ups?

I just got smart and separated all my data files from the various directories on my PC and I have them all in one spot now.

Then I installed an 80 GB Maxtor internal hard drive in my PC and copied all my data files into it.

Once per week I copy the whole thing over. If I make any critical progress on a file I will do an ad-hoc save into the back up directory mid-week.

All my music, samples, VSTs, etc. are backed up on DVDs offline, so if I need to, I can restore them whenever.

I just started backing up my data files though because I figure if my luck has been this ggod, this long, it is bound to change soon.

Any how, I hope you didn't get too inconvenienced.

Cheers!

-Alex

I use Acronis True Image.

Everytime I have a nice stable PC I backup up using Acronis. It gets backed up to a separate sector on one of the HDs that Windows cannot see (called the Acronis Secure Zone) - this way if Windows won't boot up I can run the Acronis recovery manager from DOS and it can see the Acronis Secure Zone

I keep doing incremental backups whenever new software is installed and then if something goes wrong I just restore the latest backup and voila everything is hunkey dorey!


Drammy

have you checked the CMOS battery?

Drammy: Aye, indeed.. I've checked that.. still nothing!

Alex: I had a smaller backup this time (with critical documents) that weren't destroyed in the crash I had just a few weeks ago.. All my music from the last past 10 years is gone except that some friends has bits and pieces of the original .rns/.mod/.xm-files

have you tried booting in safe mode?

mr.e: It's completly dead now.. and before, no.. I couldn't boot it in safe mode

I'd be saving those drives and trying them in a different machine in case anything is salvagable. the first error message points to the cmos battery, a fucked motherboard or fucked memory, or a combination of the three, with a bit of luck the files or at least some of them will still be intact.

I'll save every piece and try them one by one until I find the faulty bit (or bits!). Still it really sucks!

Bad luck 303!

Let's hope you can at least salvage some of the data... :cry:

Good luck Sebastian!

I'm prayin' for ya' Brotha'!

8)

I just tested it out this morning and suprise.. It boots but since i've changed my CRT to another yesterday i get a "Out of range", so I better get my old CRT-screen back and then have a look at the computer once more.

It's so bloody strange how computers act up..

303 I had the same prob a while ago, and flashing my mobo with the latest bios sorted things out for me...

cheers

Blay

The thing is that I flashed the mobo for like 2 months ago with the latest.. err.. what is it called again? "driver"? I am too bloody tired today.

I flashed it since I've got problems with my PC the last few months and I tried everything.. So I guess it was just bound to happen, the thing is that I really don't care about the +200 gigs of software/movies or the 7-8 homepages I've spent more than +300 hours on I lost.. I mean, my music.. that's the worst part.. Well, that's a fresh start?

You all know what I really want to say, so I wont say it...

:lol:

303, are you sure your hard drives are dead as well?
Usually (though it is rare) when I have a cmos/bios go bad, the hard drives are still fine. I just pull them out and thrown them in a new machine as a 2nd or 3rd drive.

Oh, I lost those in another crash.. It was bound to happened.. my computer has been acting up lately.

Jase: Hoho! I knew someone would add a comment like that - the thing is acctually - this happens to Mac's aswell but instead of getting it fixed yourself, you gotta submit it to an "registred apple logo inc ipod deluxe super evil tech-genius" too have it fixed and it's bloody expensive.

And besides, look at the performance you get from a PC for "no money at all" instead of paying for just what I look at it; the logo.

Sure Apple had really really nice designs but today.. I don't know, companies has become really good at releasing really good looking cases and if you don't like it.. hey, build your own lunchbox PC. If i were to buy a Mac, I'd never mod the case or anything since hell.. that is where the major part of one's money goes into.. designers.. Hoho

Are we finally going to have a Mac vs PC flame war? We must be the only music board EVER never to have had one.

Goddamn PC vs. Mac flame war sissy-pants meely-peely crap.

You all should be using multiplexed circuit boards from vintage Bosch microwaves for motherboards and TI-81 chipsets for your memory arrays.

All that with a floppy disk jukebox is not only more powerful than a sissy-pants Wintel/Mac shite machine but infinitely more stable.

Don't make me write up the calculus to prove it.

Yeah! I use that kind of setup and it really beats all because it's meant to do what it does, like my setup is designed for music production (you can see it from stickers on the case with a picture of a half-eaten pear stating 'for musick' and 'gooder for musick than anything else').

Although I didn't do the mistake using microwave circuitboards and TI-81 memory arrays. I did some research and noticed that most modern processors have heaps of commands and you really don't need even one fifth of those. Afterall you only need add, sub, mov and rotating. So I picked up stable 8085 chipset and made an array of ten 8085's. I use a 4x8 relay pack as a memory buffer to feed the humongous series of massive 32K ROM chips. I did the base code for the machine and it runs like a dream. I planned to bring it to the next olympics, but there's some kind of rule that the participant must be a human. I bet it's again a Microsoft and/or Apple conspiracy.

We all know how poorly all OS's are written on consumer computers. They're designed to all kinds of useless stuff like image editing, virus scanning, playing a game (deers, bears, badgers, etc). My machine only does running and recording. That's why it's the best. Want a proof? Well, when I ran my own benchmark program I noticed that dual Mac G5 and dual core Ahtlon 4500 couldn't even get pass the relay pack accessing test - And memory functions should be the best part on those machines. Bah!