We had a momentary power failure yesterday afternoon – just long enough to have to reset the digital clocks, and for DirecTV to have to go through an extended boot-up sequence. I was using my laptop on line at the time, and didn’t even lose my network connection.
The Dell pc in our office wasn’t so lucky. Even though it was “protected” by a line conditioner, it looks like that failure (or the power surge that caused it) fried our computer’s brain.
When we first turned the computer back on, we got the dreaded blue screen saying Windows was shutting down to prevent further damage and to check the BiOs. Turning the pc off and back on resulted in a black screen with scrolling garbage. I could not get into a DOS screen or Safe mode no matter which f-key I pounded, or how often.
In desperation, I took it back home to the guy that built it, and we got lucky. He noticed the word MEMORY was recurring on the junk scrolling down the screen. He opened the case and removed one DDR memory stick – picked the bad one on the first try – and the computer booted up normally.
Replaced the bad memory and added some more while we were in there anyway. Now the computer is better than ever.
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