My computer crashed

[Viva]

Lost a lot of important data including saved firefox passwords. I couldn't even log on to windows or ubuntu after that. Memory check gave me a lot of errors, so I removed the RAM sticks, noticed that they are dirty, cleaned them and put them back. My computer is working again](*,)

[themarker0]

Lesson? Clean your computer twice a month.

[cascade9]

Lesson? Clean your computer twice a month.

Easier way? Buy a case with dust filters and clean it out far less often than that :)

[tgalati4]

Place your computer at least 1' (1/3 meter for you metric weanies) above the floor.

[The Real Dave]

I have to clean mine a lot, it moves quite a bit of air, and sucks in quite a bit of dust :(

[cascade9]

Place your computer at least 1' (1/3 meter for you metric weanies) above the floor.

That is 0.304 metres. :lolflag:

Dust filter is still easier.


I have to clean mine a lot, it moves quite a bit of air, and sucks in quite a bit of dust :(

One word- stockingfilter. You know you want to :)

[tom66]

Actually it's 0.3048 meters, 0.305 if you're rounding up. :lolflag:

Most of my spare computers have no case so they do not have much chance to gather dust. I have one case I share between them. Luckily I don't use them often enough to warrant casing.

[Bachstelze]

Wait, how could you lose "important data" if it was a RAM problem?

[NMFTM]

Lost a lot of important data including saved firefox passwords
Am I the only one who cringed when they read this?

Wait, how could you lose "important data" if it was a RAM problem?
Maybe he was running off of a live CD for days on end? Why someone would do that, I do not know.

[cascade9]

Actually it's 0.3048 meters, 0.305 if you're rounding up. :lolflag:

Most of my spare computers have no case so they do not have much chance to gather dust. I have one case I share between them. Luckily I don't use them often enough to warrant casing.

Opps, I used 2.533 = 1 for inches/cm conversion...it should be 2.5333333333333 (recuring) :lolflag:


Wait, how could you lose "important data" if it was a RAM problem?

RAM corruption can cause data corruption.

[swoll1980]

Wait, how could you lose "important data" if it was a RAM problem?

That's what I was wondering.

[Viva]

Wait, how could you lose "important data" if it was a RAM problem?

I was running firefox when my computer crashed suddenly. When I finally managed to log in again, most of the profile is gone other than a couple of extensions.


Am I the only one who cringed when they read this?


Why? I have passwords to my paypal account, a couple of domain registrars with important names, email accounts stored in firefox. Fortunately, I had jaunty on a different home partition that I did not format while installing karmic, so I'm hoping to restore some of the older passwords using that firefox profile. All the newer ones are lost though.

[lovinglinux]

I was running firefox when my computer crashed suddenly. When I finally managed to log in again, most of the profile is gone other than a couple of extensions.

Why? I have passwords to my paypal account, a couple of domain registrars with important names, email accounts stored in firefox. Fortunately, I had jaunty on a different home partition that I did not format while installing karmic, so I'm hoping to restore some of the older passwords using that firefox profile. All the newer ones are lost though.

Backing up Firefox profiles are easy and don't occupy much space. Use FEBE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=FEBE) do do regular backups.

[NMFTM]

Why? I have passwords to my paypal account, a couple of domain registrars with important names, email accounts stored in firefox. Fortunately, I had jaunty on a different home partition that I did not format while installing karmic, so I'm hoping to restore some of the older passwords using that firefox profile. All the newer ones are lost though.
The idea of storing passwords on my computer seems kind of iffy.