Re: OT short circuit

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Your electric razor problem and the resultant power failure
may have caused a power spike that has caused a re-set of
the BIOS. This is why a UPS, a battery backed surge
suppressor, is essential to protect a computer power supply
and the hardware [mobo, CPU and RAM, etc.] from damage. If
the power suddenly fails during a hard drive write cycle,
the drive can be scrambled and become unreadable.

Good quality UPSs are made by APC and other companies.
www.apc.com




"beamish" <beamish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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| Hello,
| After a problem with a electric razor causing a short
circuit,
| main unit rebooted, stopped with a screen stating that
there
| is a bad harddrive and to save all data.
| Screen also indicated that the drive compilation was
changed.
| Showing a list of all drives. Listed the two harddrives in
order,
| and one optical drive,"proper name" and one optical drive
as a
| series of double dashes then the floppy.
| Entered the BIOS and found that the second optical drive
had the
| same information listed as the first harddrive.
| At this point I was searching for someway to correct this
in the BIOS.
| Found that doing nothing except shutting down was the best
course.
| Noticed that the cable modem was working but the router
had both
| lights for the connected units flashing. Turned off both
items.
| Restarted unit and entered the BIOS, the above had
defaulted to
| normal setup. Windows started without problem and all
worked.
| Disconnected the units from the router then reconnected,
all OK.
| Before reading post,(one year plus), in these MS Windows
XP groups,
| I may have attempted many actions that would have caused
major
| problems.
|
| I would like to thank everyone who assist in these groups.
| You all do exceptional work.
| Thank You.
|
| take care.
| beamish.
|
|
|
|


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