Re: OT-Odd (to me) computer failure

Eric R Snow wrote:
So my computer starts to act up. I had to fix some files. More files
damaged so I shut the thing off with plans to only turn on the thing
one more time to get everything off of the hard drive. I take it to
the local computer place and the guy suggests that maybe the computer
is running hot. So I put the whole thing in the fridge and it worked
fine. Taken out it lasts only about 20 minutes. I still figured it's
the hard drive but it's not. The computer motherboard is failing. As
long as the computer is in the fridge it runs great. What I don't
understand is how files on the hard drive were damaged by the
computer. But lots of files were damaged. It's not a virus most likely
because I ran two updated virus programs and they detect nothing. And
now that I have put the old drive into another machine it works fine.
Nevertheless it will be destroyed after I get all the files I want.
ERS
Well, if the computer crashes while writing to disk, it can make a mess. If the file directories are in memory, are altered when you change a file, then are corrupted by bad CPU or memory operation, and then are written back to disk, you have a royal mess. I just had this on my kids' computer due to CPU overheating. It started getting the "blue screen". I got the vacuum and sucked a huge wad of dust out of the CPU heatsink, and the problems went away, but I had file corruption in the registry. I tried to fix it, but the recovery stuff wouldn't do it. I finally copied all the user files off, erased the disk and reloaded Windows, and put the user files back. So, there was nothing wrong with the hardware, just it was overheating.

Jon
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