Zorac (zorac) wrote,
Zorac
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  • Mood: apoplectic
  • Music: my wails of despair

Wah!

RIP visar :-( My trusty Linux server appears to have died an untimely death, taking my lovely ADSL networking with it. Oh, and about 25% of the final ever episode of Buffy that was downloading onto it. Argh!

The damage appears to be terminal: on pressing the power button, it's beep-beep-beep-beep-poweroff. The useful manual of course doesn't tell me what this means, but I'm sure it can't be good. I do have the connection up and running on zorac, the Windows XP box, but this means nothing else on the network (e.g. the iBook) can connect to the 'net. Woe! Having managed to grab Bittorrent for windows, I then find that the site with the .torrent file for Buffy 7x22 has dropped off the net since earlier this afternoon, and eMule hasn't brought me a single byte yet.

The only thing currently stopping me from asking if this day can get any worse is the certain knowledge that if I do, it will...

Update: Have managed to find an alternate source, and Buffy is now downloading again, but the delay and lost data mean it's very unlikely to be done in time for me to view it tonight.
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  • 3 comments

hermorrine

May 19 2003, 12:11:39 UTC 17 years ago

I'm sorry honey. *huggles*

coffeesama

May 19 2003, 17:07:38 UTC 17 years ago

Sorry to hear that.
Is it beeping during POST or after?

zorac

May 20 2003, 00:28:17 UTC 17 years ago

It's beeping the moment I power it on - doesn't even get as far as the video BIOS. Hopefully some googling today will turn up a list of beep codes for this particular motherboard.

On the plus side, before it went down I was getting the error messages had me worried about hard disk failure, but that would show up later in the boot process, so hopefully that's OK and I can salvage the data.