jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) (01/04/88)
I have a question regarding hardware repair. I, er, uhem, a friend of mine,
yeah, that's who it was, plugged in my, er, his external drive with the power
to the computer on. Yes, I know it was a stupid thing to do, but you know how
it goes on a bad day. Anyway, I plugged in the drive and guess what? It died.
I am assuming I power-surged something into the great land of charcoal and
molten plastic. The drive would make some weird noises that reminded me of a
vacuum cleaner with a loose plug... you know, like it would start up and when
it got just shy of full whine it would die out again. If anybody has done
this before and knows from experience, or has not done it but knows what is
most likely burned out, I would appreciate it very much. I sure would hate to
have to buy another drive because a $.39 capacitor is fried.
Engineering: Capt'n, we are going ahead at warp 8, but our port engines are out
Captain : Result?
Engineering: We be goin in circles, sir.
Captain : Not good.
Engineering: It's even worse than that, I think we are catching up to ourselves
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Jim Sewell Make knowledge free! | <*> <*> This is
| / your Amiga
"Boy, do I feel dumb! 8-)" | speaking
================================================================================jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) (01/05/88)
In article <266@coplex.UUCP> jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes: >[I plugged in my] external drive with the power >to the computer on. Yes, I know it was a stupid thing to do, but you know how >it goes on a bad day. Anyway, I plugged in the drive and guess what? It died. I have an even better question! When the aforementioned problem occured I immediately thought, "Maybe it is a program confusing my Ami." So I rebooted from power off. When this provided the same results, I repeated the whole cold boot sequence. Being desperate I did this 4 times with no better results. This morning, however, when I woke Amy up, the drive started clicking when Workbench came up and upon being fed a disk worked like a charm! Is my computer possessed by some really bizarre form of a virus [ 8-) ] or what? Any ideas? ================================================================================ Jim Sewell Make knowledge free! | <*> <*> This is | / your Amiga "Boy, do I feel dumb! 8-)" | speaking ================================================================================
amiguy@pnet01.cts.com (Sean Wolfe) (01/06/88)
jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes: >In article <266@coplex.UUCP> jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes: >>[I plugged in my] external drive with the power >>to the computer on. Yes, I know it was a stupid thing to do, but you know how >>it goes on a bad day. Anyway, I plugged in the drive and guess what? It died. > >I have an even better question! When the aforementioned problem occured I >immediately thought, "Maybe it is a program confusing my Ami." So I rebooted >from power off. When this provided the same results, I repeated the whole cold >boot sequence. Being desperate I did this 4 times with no better results. This >morning, however, when I woke Amy up, the drive started clicking when Workbench >came up and upon being fed a disk worked like a charm! Is my computer possessed >by some really bizarre form of a virus [ 8-) ] or what? Any ideas? When you turn off something like a computer, all of the power doesn't drain out of the components right away.. By the time the next day came around, all of the parts had time to release their charge..... (I think...) AmiGuy
itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) (01/07/88)
In article <267@coplex.UUCP>, jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes: >So I rebooted from power off. When this provided the same results, >I repeated the whole cold boot sequence. Being desperate I did this >4 times with no better results. This morning, however, when I woke >Amy up, the drive started clicking when Workbench came up and upon >being fed a disk worked like a charm! Is my computer possessed >by some really bizarre form of a virus [ 8-) ] or what? Any ideas? No. Your computer has some "diginurds" in it. Diginurds have been described as demons playing billiards with the electrons in semi-conductor material. There was an article about them in some technical journal over 10 years ago, but I don't remember it now. -- Elliot S. Itkin Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 UUCP: {arizona,decvax,hao,ihnp4}!noao!stsci!itkin ARPA: itkin@stsci.edu SPAN: {SCIVAX,KEPLER}::ITKIN