My computer is a wreck?
Thierry de Coulon
tcoulon at decoulon.ch
Mon Jan 3 19:56:22 UTC 2011
On Monday 03 January 2011 07:08:59 pm MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Normally, the settings in your CMOS will not be impacted in any
> way by installing a different OS, at least not that I know of....
Just a (real) tale:
Looong time ago (not in a galaxy far, far away...) I had an Intel 286 computer
with a 5.25" floppy (360K for those who remember) and I was using a software
to write it as a "near-HD" drive (800KB). It crashed, and when I rebooted it
it was "dead".
I completely disassembled it, even plugged in other chips (yeah, they where
plugged into sockets at the time)... nothing.
I remember I had given up on it, so I replugged all original chips and started
the beast a last time before it's funeral... and went to toilet while it was
booting... when I heard a "beep"... the machine was alive! And it continued
to work without a problem until I changed it for an i386 machine :)
So, this boils down to: sometime "things" happen to our beloved (or hated, as
you prefer) computers, and sometimes you'll never know why - and probably
should not bother either. I never used the "write as HD" software again, but
very possibly it had nothing to do with the failure.
So I really don't believe installing Ubuntu had anything to do with this
wreckage, it just happened while installing it. And probably (hopefully) the
computer will continue to work well now.
Thierry
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