Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26

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Subject: [Leica] Computer help!!!
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Jul 26 13:50:29 2005
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Which Mac are you gonna get now?


Slobodan Dimitrov
Studio G-8, AGCC
http://sdimitrovphoto.com



On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 01:20 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote:
>
>> So Tina, please let us know how the Geek Squad visit went.
>>
>
> Brian and LUG:
>
> The good news is that he found absolutely nothing wrong.  The bad  
> news is that he found absolutely nothing wrong.  I had hoped there  
> would be some glaring mistake I was making that would explain  
> everything.  The guy was great.  He was here about 3 hours and ran  
> all kinds of diagnostic tests.  I had managed to reload quite a few  
> of my programs and had the internet connected when he got here.  He  
> also hooked up several peripherals to check for problems.  At first  
> he thought I had a definite problem with the APC PowerChute because  
> the fan wasn't running, but he ran a check on it and the fan is  
> supposed to only come on when it is hot. My APC also has a voltage  
> control, so it's not fluctuating power that's causing problems. He  
> opened up the case and checked all of the connections and the  
> controllers built into the motherboard.  No problems there. The  
> second internal hard drive still causes an automatic "Check Disk"  
> message every time I turn the computer on, but I knew that was an  
> issue and plan to reformat it as soon as I transfer some of the  
> information.  It hasn't been reformated since I installed the new  
> operating system.  The Geek guy found a few registry errors but  
> said they shouldn't have caused any problems.   He enabled  
> Hyperthreading which he said would make the computer run better,  
> but he was at a loss as to why I've had so many hard drive  
> failures.  He said he guessed it was possible that Dell had a whole  
> batch of bad Maxtor drives.  He also said my Dell is the most  
> powerful one they make and that they are really proud of them and  
> check them out thoroughly before they leave the factory.
>
> The last time the computer crashed, I was running Archive Creator,  
> a program that calculates how many DVDs you need to copy a folder  
> and then prompts you to put a new one in when each one is full.  We  
> reloaded that program and it's working fine.  I've been working all  
> morning restoring my programs and checking them out and so far so  
> good.  I'm going to back it all up tonight and every night.  The  
> only one of the external drives that is not working is the LaCie  
> 120 GB one.  It refuses to reformat so I've unplugged it.
>
> I have a 30 day warranty now with Geek Squad so if anything goes  
> wrong, they'll come back out and fix it.  Dell called me yesterday,  
> too, (from India) to find out if everything was running o.k.  I  
> told them to call back today and I'd tell them.  I haven't had any  
> problems with Dell's customer service except that all of their  
> solutions involve my losing weeks worth of work!!  This time I lost  
> 200GB of photos that I'll have to rescan and a slide program that I  
> had almost finished.  That's what kills me.
>
> Thanks for all of the advice and good wishes directed my way.  It's  
> great to have a group that I can complain to!!
>
> Back to the salt mine!
>
> Tina
>
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