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I get to have a new computer!
Because my old one said "BIOS ROM Checksum Error".
After failing Memtest (Ubuntu CD boot option).
After replacing the power supply.
This computer was always running on a UPS.
I guess it's about time. I built this computer four years ago.
One of the neat things is that after that BIOS error, instead of giving up, it tried to read a new ROM from my CDROM.
It'll be funny if I lost both my main hard drive and my backup hard drive. Mostly because the computer I'm using now was intended to only host the backup hard drive, preferably in somebody else's house, for exactly this kind of reason.
So yeah, if things on multiple breakers in your house flicker simultaneously, get somebody to look at it.
Anybody want to let me keep a computer at their house, and use some bandwidth at night for backups? Perhaps in return for providing backups of your data on the same computer?
After failing Memtest (Ubuntu CD boot option).
After replacing the power supply.
This computer was always running on a UPS.
I guess it's about time. I built this computer four years ago.
One of the neat things is that after that BIOS error, instead of giving up, it tried to read a new ROM from my CDROM.
It'll be funny if I lost both my main hard drive and my backup hard drive. Mostly because the computer I'm using now was intended to only host the backup hard drive, preferably in somebody else's house, for exactly this kind of reason.
So yeah, if things on multiple breakers in your house flicker simultaneously, get somebody to look at it.
Anybody want to let me keep a computer at their house, and use some bandwidth at night for backups? Perhaps in return for providing backups of your data on the same computer?