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Originally Posted by G-Benz
No questions just a rant:
I think I may have stumbled on an ancient PC curse somehow.
I lost the boot sector on my hard drive on my PC about a month ago. After a slow week of recovery, it crashed again less than a week later. This time I decided the drive was faulty and went out and bought a new (and bigger) one. It's now up as we speak.
Same week, my wife notifies me that my daughter's PC won't boot (operating system not found). I can't even get that one to bring up the BIOS menu! Before I take a mallet to it, I check the cables in the case and one of the drive cables had worked loose...VOILA! It boots up fine...everything is ok.
Today, my dad calls me to tell me his 18-mo old Dell won't boot up. This, after talking to an offshore Dell support rep over the phone for a couple of hours, who gives up and tells him they can get him up and running for $200!
I talk him through the BIOS boot sequence changes and reinstall of XP and now he is humming along doing the rest of the recovery himself.
I'm now waiting for my laptop and my wife's workstation to get hit next...
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I have a NEW client now since she had the same useless results with Dell! She paid $200 to have them tell her...."we don't know what it is". Turns out it was the Symantec GO Back reloaded a bad backup image....Sheesh, I wish I was paid $200 per incident and I GET results. Even if the system is unsalvageable I can tell them what happened at the very least.
Computers are very much like cars. They have similar component problems. They overheat, the drives can die prematurely, they have electrical shorts, they have shock damage, cables tear, get wired backwards etc.
By the way, you can download updates for the BIOS on those Dells they often help stabilize problems with the board and I/O devices.
Out of curiosity, what brand of drive did you have in your system. A few systems I have fixed are Dell desktops with IBM 20GB drives that are only 20 months old and are now paperweights.
If you need any specific help or if other forum members do, save your money and shoot me an email and I will see if I can help.
