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.