POWERCCUT...HELP THE IRISH MAN!!!!

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Hi Folks,

My electric supply pack in a few hours ago and my computer died immediatley
, with all those other modern things that need power. I was running loads of
programs and such when this crash happened, and when I started the computer
again , all seems different and my computer took ages to start and then to
get on line.
I have also recently posted other problems on this site, see JC posts, and
this latest "problem" is the icing on the cake!!!!

ps. Apart from the problems listed above, I broke my femur four weeks ago
and my wife give birth to our first son two weeks ago.Who said the Irish were
lucky!!!!!

help if you can!!!!!
 
JC said:
Hi Folks,

My electric supply pack in a few hours ago and my computer died immediatley
, with all those other modern things that need power. I was running loads of
programs and such when this crash happened, and when I started the computer
again , all seems different and my computer took ages to start and then to
get on line.
I have also recently posted other problems on this site, see JC posts, and
this latest "problem" is the icing on the cake!!!!

ps. Apart from the problems listed above, I broke my femur four weeks ago
and my wife give birth to our first son two weeks ago.Who said the Irish were
lucky!!!!!

help if you can!!!!!
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The only immediate suggestion that can be made is to let the computer
get re-started on its own. It is going to be slow as it has to pick up
the threads from the time the power got cut off. The next re-boot should
be normal, at least to most recent default settings prior to the power
cut. Some open files might need to be repaired, especially those that
were being updated or being worked on at the time of the power cut, if
they were not lost in their entirety. Trust that there are recent backups.

For the future, buy a good UPS (~600-watt or so) to keep the computer,
monitor, immediate peripherals, etc., running to allow a safe shutdown.
Around 5 to 10 minutes of protection should be sufficient since the most
tedious work would be at closing the open files.
 
Ghostrider said:
The only immediate suggestion that can be made is to let the computer
get re-started on its own. It is going to be slow as it has to pick up
the threads from the time the power got cut off. The next re-boot should
be normal, at least to most recent default settings prior to the power
cut. Some open files might need to be repaired, especially those that
were being updated or being worked on at the time of the power cut, if
they were not lost in their entirety. Trust that there are recent backups.

For the future, buy a good UPS (~600-watt or so) to keep the computer,
monitor, immediate peripherals, etc., running to allow a safe shutdown.
Around 5 to 10 minutes of protection should be sufficient since the most
tedious work would be at closing the open files.
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A typical PC consumes about 200 Watts, so if money is an issue
then a 300 VA UPS will suffice. There is no need to protect the
peripherals: All the OP needs is five to 10 minutes to shut down
his PC in an orderly fashion.

If it is a good UPS then it will come with automatic shutdown
software, causing Windows to shut down by itself when the
battery is about to run out. Note that most UPS batteries lose
their storage capacity after about 3 years.
 
JC said:
Hi Folks,

My electric supply pack in a few hours ago and my computer died
immediatley
, with all those other modern things that need power. I was running loads
of
programs and such when this crash happened, and when I started the
computer
again , all seems different and my computer took ages to start and then to
get on line.
I have also recently posted other problems on this site, see JC posts, and
this latest "problem" is the icing on the cake!!!!

ps. Apart from the problems listed above, I broke my femur four weeks ago
and my wife give birth to our first son two weeks ago.Who said the Irish
were
lucky!!!!!
Click to expand...


Make sure there is a full and complete backup, then run a chkdsk /r on the
drive. Also you might want to download a drive diagnostic utility from the
hard drive manufacturer's web site. That will create a bootable floppy or
CD. Boot from that and run the diagnostics to check the health of the
drive.

After that if there are still problems you might have to uninstall/reinstall
any programs that are having problems.
 
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