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BMF54123                  Since: 11-18-05 From: MOOGLES Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| Okay, tonight has been...scary.
(warning: long-winded rambling ahead) So I'm just sitting here, browsing the board on PC #1 (Win98) and burning some RAR backups to my external DVD burner on PC #2 (Win2000). I switch to #2 to hook up the burner and start Nero (I have a KVM switch). All is well so far, until I switch back to #1 and notice that it's frozen. Hard. Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, so I hit Reset, and...nothing. I power the computer completely off and back on, and it starts up again like nothing happened. Oooookay. So, I start up lololol again, and switch to #2 to check its progress. So far so good...Nero is verifying the files on the DVD. All of a sudden, the burner stops dead in its tracks...and the whole computer is frozen hard. Just like #1, Reset does nothing. At this point I'm seriously starting to panic. Two computers, connected by only a router and KVM switch, have completely locked up within minutes of each other...that can't be normal. Again, power off, restart as usual, and I notice that my DVD burner is no longer recognized as a drive, but a "USB Mass Storage Device USB Device". No amount of unplugging the power/USB cable or rebooting Windows fixes the problem. In full HOLY CRAP MY HARDWARE  paranoia mode at this point, I boot into Windows 98 instead, and after a little cajoling, the drive comes up, but with a weird boxy USB icon instead of the usual CD-ROM icon. On a whim, I decided to run the drive's firmware updater, just in case it got trashed when #2 froze. The flash succeeds, I reboot into Win2000, and...I'm currently listening to an audio CD on the drive. Everything's back to normal again.
My question is: what the hell? 
What bizarre event could have possibly happened that would cause two separate computers to freeze in the same manner within a few minutes of each other, AND render a DVD burner (on a separate circuit, no less) inoperable? I've ruled out both a power surge/drop (I use a battery backup unit) and a virus (full scan revealed nothing). Has anything this improbable ever happened to anyone else? I'm almost afraid to leave my computers on tonight... (edited by BMF54123 on 03-15-06 07:40 AM) |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos   Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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Two Windows computers freezing around the same time? Please... that happens all the time, hell at my high school it was far more often for around 5-7 of them to be crashed and all sorts of garbage (they ran Windows 2000  ). Yeah I had the unofficial job of fixing them  (I even got around to making an unattended CD that did everything once I booted from it, except for partitioning).
Also, if Nero was only in the testing phase, then the DVD should have been completely burnt by then. Now I don't know Nero so its order might be out of whack, but that would be stupid. So if all that was on it were RAR archives, you can test those archives to make sure they're okay. Windows not recognizing the USB device for no apparent reason? Happened to me too, most often with my iPod. |
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BMF54123 Since: 11-18-05 From: MOOGLES Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| Bleh...maybe I was overreacting just a little last night, but it was still seriously weird. I haven't had a hard lockup that didn't respond to the Reset button in a long time, and yet it happened twice, at almost the same time, on two different OSes on two totally different computers.
The archives are fine, I checked them with my internal DVD drive. I figured they would be. As for the USB problems...did you have to re-flash your iPod to get it working again?  (edited by BMF54123 on 03-15-06 05:25 PM) |
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Parasyte + Red Paragoomba  Since: 01-05-06 Last post: 6658 days Last view: 6658 days |
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| Get yourself a PowerMac G5. Problem solved. CPU power *= 4. The galaxy is at peace. | |||
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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| If it's as freaky as he said, that'd just mean it'd freeze 4 times faster than any Windows computer ever could.
Speed != Lack of freakish happenings As for what you described... I dunno. It's about as bad as how my Novastor backup kills DVDs seconds before it should succeed in writing to them. |
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The Red Snifit Ropa  Since: 03-05-06 From: Here Last post: 6339 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| I've had a this one Mac for 3 years, and it never crashed once. My pc that I had for a year crashed 100+ times... Not joking either... It just crased while opening this page when I first tried it... (edited by The Red Snifit on 03-21-06 07:43 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6338 days |
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| Maybe something shorted in the KVM switch. A lot of computers will power off if you do things like plug a monitor in backward or unplug a drive. |
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