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September 11, 2004
Smoking Computer
I never said I was a computer wizard............. I have just proved it too. Here's the scene: I have just come into possession of a 20 Gig hard drive. I thought I could put it in my home computer as a spare drive to put my music and photo's on etc, just to clear up space on my main drive. So after talking to someone "in the know" I felt all clued up on how to do it. Armed with a screw driver in one hand and a cigarette in the other I was ready. Took off the side of my computer, located my main hard drive and connected my new hard drive with all the correct wires. So I thought up to that point. Eager to start using the drive and start transferring all my stuff to it, I switched the power on. Ka Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Smoke starts belowing out of the spare hard drive. Power off quickly! Head in Hands. 2 cigarettes later decides to disconnect spare (knackered and useless) hard drive, put everything back to the way it was before I started messing about with it. Chucked the knackered drive in the bin and turned on my computer, with crossed fingers. Phew, it all worked as before. Now that was lucky. Now since I already had the side off, I decided to finally install my multi card reader which has been sitting there doing nothing for over a year. So I connected all the wires up as shown on the diagram and switched the computer back on! IT WORKED :-) So at least I got something useful out of this mornings escapades. Not that it is that useful to me because my monitor and printer both have multi card readers in them anyway. But at least I feel good in myself that I managed to do something right. Now I have to go and buy myself a spare hard drive and try it again. I saw one for £45 in the shop opposite my work and that was for an 80 Gig one. This time I think I will have a look round on the Internet before trying to install it myself. Hope you are all having a good weekend. Ta Ta for now.Posted by Markiss at September 11, 2004 1:40 PM
