It's all going to hell!

Pookeyhead

Pookeyhead

Suspended / Banned
Messages
11,746
Name
David
Edit My Images
No
Earlier this week my 14-24 f2.8 decided voluntary euthanasia was it's best course of action, and now my main editing screen has decided to show solidarity, and started displaying flashing, schizoid, random crap instead of an image. That's £4000 worth of gear gone south in a week!

While not as serious, the mains plug socket in my bedroom has stopped working, and I can't charge my Kindle while I'm reading in bed.

I'm now waiting for the next instalment.... giving sideways glances at every piece of technology around me.

I think I'll go back to bed :)

Just ranting... thanks for listening.
 
My Mum always said that if the wind changes while I pull a face it will stay li.... oh, hang on.. [checks mirror]... ok, I get it. :)
 
I know your pain. Monday my main hard drive in my photo editing pc just stopped dead and I lost all my data. (Yes I have backups thankfully)

Yesterday, I turn on IMac for the first time in a few weeks to make a playlist for our haloween party today, only to find its wiped everything completely.. All my music from 2005 is gone... Fine I think, I'll turn on my media server which I copied all my music to, it has two drives in RAID, so I should have two copies.

Boot failure, insert system disk...

Marvellous. I dig out the system disk, press eject on the DVD drive, and nothing.. It's stuck solid.
So I take the entire thing to bits to get to the DVD drive and force it open, which I eventually manage and insert the system disk to restore the system, but it says it can only do a fresh install and I'll loose all my data.

So I dig out an old usb external drive I know I copied all my music too years ago... Nope, dead as a dodo...

All my music is gone forever, even though I had 3 separate backups of it.
About 6000 songs if I recall, so I'm a little annoyed!
 
TCR4x4 said:
I know your pain. Monday my main hard drive in my photo editing pc just stopped dead and I lost all my data. (Yes I have backups thankfully)

Yesterday, I turn on IMac for the first time in a few weeks to make a playlist for our haloween party today, only to find its wiped everything completely.. All my music from 2005 is gone... Fine I think, I'll turn on my media server which I copied all my music to, it has two drives in RAID, so I should have two copies.

Boot failure, insert system disk...

Marvellous. I dig out the system disk, press eject on the DVD drive, and nothing.. It's stuck solid.
So I take the entire thing to bits to get to the DVD drive and force it open, which I eventually manage and insert the system disk to restore the system, but it says it can only do a fresh install and I'll loose all my data.

So I dig out an old usb external drive I know I copied all my music too years ago... Nope, dead as a dodo...

All my music is gone forever, even though I had 3 separate backups of it.
About 6000 songs if I recall, so I'm a little annoyed!
Click to expand...


That`s tough

When my Zoom multitrack recorder went on the blink I thought I was going to lose everything but a guy at work loaned me a hard drive caddy that connected to a USB port on my PC.
I removed the hard drive from the Zoom, inserted it into the Caddy and I was able to save all the files to the PC before I re-inserted the drive into the Zoom and reset it to default settings.
You could try this with your RAID drives, you never know.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I know your pain. Monday my main hard drive in my photo editing pc just stopped dead and I lost all my data. (Yes I have backups thankfully)

Yesterday, I turn on IMac for the first time in a few weeks to make a playlist for our haloween party today, only to find its wiped everything completely.. All my music from 2005 is gone... Fine I think, I'll turn on my media server which I copied all my music to, it has two drives in RAID, so I should have two copies.

Boot failure, insert system disk...

Marvellous. I dig out the system disk, press eject on the DVD drive, and nothing.. It's stuck solid.
So I take the entire thing to bits to get to the DVD drive and force it open, which I eventually manage and insert the system disk to restore the system, but it says it can only do a fresh install and I'll loose all my data.

So I dig out an old usb external drive I know I copied all my music too years ago... Nope, dead as a dodo...

All my music is gone forever, even though I had 3 separate backups of it.
About 6000 songs if I recall, so I'm a little annoyed!
Click to expand...

Time for me to do a backup I think!
 
limpet9 said:
That`s tough

When my Zoom multitrack recorder went on the blink I thought I was going to lose everything but a guy at work loaned me a hard drive caddy that connected to a USB port on my PC.
I removed the hard drive from the Zoom, inserted it into the Caddy and I was able to save all the files to the PC before I re-inserted the drive into the Zoom and reset it to default settings.
You could try this with your RAID drives, you never know.
Click to expand...

They are IDE drives, so I need to find or buy an IDE caddy. Its on the list, but with all sorts of other crap going on at the moment I just havent got the patience for it.
 
Last edited:
Usb external drive might rescue if you put the physical drive into another box.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Earlier this week my 14-24 f2.8 decided voluntary euthanasia was it's best course of action, and now my main editing screen has decided to show solidarity, and started displaying flashing, schizoid, random crap instead of an image. That's £4000 worth of gear gone south in a week!

While not as serious, the mains plug socket in my bedroom has stopped working, and I can't charge my Kindle while I'm reading in bed.

I'm now waiting for the next instalment.... giving sideways glances at every piece of technology around me.

I think I'll go back to bed :)

Just ranting... thanks for listening.
Click to expand...

Cheer up, it could be worse. One of my wellies fell over last week.
 
srichards said:
Usb external drive might rescue if you put the physical drive into another box.
Click to expand...

Tried that too, still dead. It is very old, so I guess it just had enough.
 
Pookeyhead said:
...my main editing screen has ... started displaying flashing, schizoid, random crap instead of an image
Click to expand...
Sounds like an overheating graphics card? Have you checked for dust etc.?
scratch2.gif



Besides that, feel your pain! :|
 
Jan K. said:
Sounds like an overheating graphics card? Have you checked for dust etc.?
scratch2.gif



Besides that, feel your pain! :|
Click to expand...

Deffo monitor, not GPUs. It even does it not connected to anything on it's own menus and OSD. Plus.. my second monitor is just fine.
 
Pookeyhead said:
While not as serious, the mains plug socket in my bedroom has stopped working, and I can't charge my Kindle while I'm reading in bed.
Click to expand...

hmm ... maybe more serious, the socket shouldn't have randomly stopped working and definitely needs checking before something far more serious happens!
 
gramps said:
hmm ... maybe more serious, the socket shouldn't have randomly stopped working and definitely needs checking before something far more serious happens!
Click to expand...

It feels slack. I reckon it's a physical failure of the pin contacts.
 
I'm off to B&Q in a min to get a new socket. I'm not ignoring the problem, don't worry :)
 
Computers hate not being used... I always seem to have trouble with them after a week or two... I'd swear they get grumpy because you've gone on holiday without them!

As for the screen issue in the OP, have you checked it is the actual screen not a corrupt graphics card in the computer? It sounds very like the latter to me.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I know your pain. Monday my main hard drive in my photo editing pc just stopped dead and I lost all my data. (Yes I have backups thankfully)

Yesterday, I turn on IMac for the first time in a few weeks to make a playlist for our haloween party today, only to find its wiped everything completely.. All my music from 2005 is gone... Fine I think, I'll turn on my media server which I copied all my music to, it has two drives in RAID, so I should have two copies.

Boot failure, insert system disk...

Marvellous. I dig out the system disk, press eject on the DVD drive, and nothing.. It's stuck solid.
So I take the entire thing to bits to get to the DVD drive and force it open, which I eventually manage and insert the system disk to restore the system, but it says it can only do a fresh install and I'll loose all my data.

So I dig out an old usb external drive I know I copied all my music too years ago... Nope, dead as a dodo...

All my music is gone forever, even though I had 3 separate backups of it.
About 6000 songs if I recall, so I'm a little annoyed!
Click to expand...

Thats about as unlucky as it gets...I have three back ups but dont do anything off site...Might be time to think about some... I hope you get it back ...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top