mikesmith wrote:
| hey jeff remember me..lol..
|
| jeff if you ever work on computers
| you should read this..
|
| im going to go off on a little tangent point here..
| but it is kinda the fault that made all of this problem..
| and why i moved my hard drive to another computer in the first place..
|
| remember what started it all was..
| when my Abit KT7-raid mother board died..
| and i put my salve Quantum (data only) drive into a Compaq 5000 US
|
| well heres what my KT7 computer was doing...
| it keep locking up..
| freezing..
| it would freeze up on the windows 98 logo screen..
| it wouldent get past that..
| and sometimes it wouldent even make it to that..
| one day it was fine..
| the next day it was dead..
| i couldent get into windows 98..
|
| i read fourm after fourm..
| and tried everything all of them said..
| to try and fix my computer...
|
| replace the memory..
| replace your power supply..
| replace your video card..
| replace your processor..
| sound card....
| cables..
|
| this that..this that
| BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...
|
| reinstall windows..
|
| yeah thats the fix everyone recomends...
| when nothing they recomend works...
| re-install windows...
|
| none of what i did worked!..
| short of re-installing windows
|
| well guess what jeff..i figured it out..
| and fixed my Kt7 motherboard..
| and im thinking this might be a big problem with more peoples
| computers then most people know about...
|
| it has to do with a manufacturing defect with MILLION AND MILLIONS
| of capacitors that were put in almost every mother board made
| Abits..Msi..Giga-bytes...ALL OF THEM..
|
| i found this web site..
http://www.badcaps.net
|
| and i read this page.....
http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
| **this is the page that explains how it all happened**
|
| and i read their fourm...
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
| to find out how to fix it..
|
| well i re-capped my motherboard..
| and soldered all new Nichicon caps in my board
|
| and replaced all my **bluging TP-cons**..i replaced them all..all the
| caps on the board..
| there is picture apon picture of these bluging defective capacitors
| in their fourm
| from peoples post's in it...
| i wonder how many people have this problem and don't even know..
| and i wonder how many boards have been thrown out because of it..
|
| well now my mother board runs better then it did brand new..
| it runs like superman on steroids..lol..
|
| i wish i would have read those articles years ago because all the
| problems i ever encountered were probably all related to this
| problem..
| till one day...it got so bad..
| it wouldent work no more..
| and my mother board died
|
| plus!!!
| i had 2 power supplys i bought over the years that died..
| a 350 watt one..
| and a 400 watt one..
| guess what..
| i replaced 6 caps in one..for like 4 dollars
| and 5 caps in the other for 3 dollars..
| they work now!!!!
| i wish i would have knew..
| i would have not had to buy third power supply for 65 bucks..
|
| i have a 32 inch TV i bought a few years back..
| the top and bottom of the picture
| got big black lines in them..top and bottom..like 3 inches wide..
|
| so i bought a new TV for like 400 bucks..
| because my old one went bad with those big black lines..
| well guess what...
| i replaced 1 cap..for 65 cents..
| and now my TV works again...
|
| lol..im going Cap replace crazy..lol...
|
| i wish i would have read that web page years ago...
| i would have saved alot of money..
| anyways..
|
| maybe alot of problems people think are caused by this or that
| really might just be bad caps...
| im going to check those first thing from now on !!!!!
|
| back to my hard drive...
| well..
| i put that hard drive back in my RECAPED Kt7...and its seeing it..
| nothing was wrong with the hard drive to start...
| it was the stupid Compaq system..
|
| BUT!!!
| BUT
| but i did some things to the Hard drive using TESTDISK..
| that the developer of TESTDISK had me do..
| like changing things on the master boot thing i think...
|
| and now the files arent acessable...
| i see funny looking files and folders
| they all have funny symbols..
| insted of the names..
| and...i dont know...
| i think i messed stuff up doing what he said to do..
| ..anyways...i'll look into that..
| and try to find out what things i did..
| so i can tell you what i did..
| its hard talking to that guy..
| i dont think he speeks english.....im guessing..
|
| i'll do that in my next post to you..
|
| but yeah it was that gay AZZ Compaq...nothing was wrong with the hard
| drive in the first place...
| it was something in that stupid compaq set up..
| im going to have to ask that TESTDISK guy what i did and how to
| reverse it if i can...
|
| yeah thanks for trying to help me Jeff..
| talk to you soon buddy....
| THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!
I'm sure Jeff remembers & is still watching. Few of us can recall he has
gone senile yet & he is wearing triple-thick trifocal glasses! I'm no
expert on caps, & the site you posted won't come up for me; so, answer
Buffalo's questions when you get a chance too. You should hesitate to
recommend a thing that could electrocute us. We get our electro-shock
brain therapy & restarted hearts on an as-needed basis here! Keep us all
informed.
I don't want to step on the toes of your TESTDISK guy, but, yea, try to
recall what he said & what has been done. Was it determined that the
Quantum Fireball Hard Drive had MaxBlast unnecessarily installed? Is the
TESTDISK guy trying to uninstall it or to reinstall it? Maybe post what
MBRWork shows for the MBR on the Fireball. What partition type does it
show?
| "Jeff Richards" wrote:
|
| That's OK - I'm watching.
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Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
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