Smoke and Fire

[BentonGrey]

So, I'm back up pursuing my doctorate, four hours away from home.  I've mentioned this before, but I'm staying up here during the week and heading home on the weekends  This weekend I had to stay up here to get the semester started off right, so tonight found me sitting in my apartment doing some work when my wife called me at 11:00 at night to tell me my desktop had started smoking when she tried to turn it on.  Great.  Not only was I out of town for whatever the heck happened, but I won't even be able to get home to assess the damage until Thursday night.  One thing's for sure, the HDD is slag.  I had her facetime me and show me the inside of the case.  The cables going to the drive had literally melted off.  I have no idea of it is a total loss or if just the drive is dead.  Those of you that pray, please keep us in your prayers.  It's going to be a bit of a pinch just to replace the drive, but I don't know what we're going to do if I have to replace the entire thing.

On the plus side, I had JUST backed up my FF stuff to my laptop before I left.  My mods are safe, at least.  All the other stuff that was on my desktop and not my laptop, however...not so much.  I had just wiped it and reinstalled everything, gotten everything put on there from my backup several months ago, but I hadn't backed everything back up yet.  There's a lot that is probably lost, up in smoke.

[Cyber Burn]

Oh man, I'm really sorry to hear that Benton. Of course I'll keep you in my prayers, and anything FF related I have is yours, just say the word.

[daglob]

 

[BentonGrey]

Thanks guys.

Well, fortunately drives have come WAY down since I last priced one.  I should be able to replace the drive and the power supply without too much trouble.  I just really, really hope that those are the only things I've got to replace.

[OrWolvie1]

Thanks guys.

Well, fortunately drives have come WAY down since I last priced one.  I should be able to replace the drive and the power supply without too much trouble.  I just really, really hope that those are the only things I've got to replace.

Like CB said, anything you need, just say the word. We're here for you

[spydermann93]

That really stinks, Benton. Sorry to hear that.

Sounds like it was a mix of dust build up and a short circuit, or something like that. Dust is poison to computers.

[BentonGrey]

It's alive!  My rig, which I'm considering naming "Phoenix," has risen from the ashes!  I've got it up and running again, and though I still have to reinstall everything AND time is still limited, it should make modding a good deal easier again.

[spydermann93]