06-20-15 07:28 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: SCSI Adapter Startup

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
 EV>06-19-15 09:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: SCSI Adapter Startup

 EV> TW> {at}MSGID: 
 EV> EV>06-17-15 08:01 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: SCSI Adapter
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 EV>Howdy! Tom,
 EV>-snip-
 EV> TW> Actually I am still using it and I have had some problems in
 EV> TW> the last couple of days so I think I will recycle it.

 EV>Use ERASER or DBAN on it first.

 TW> I intend to go back to square one and see what happenes with
 TW> it.

Howdy! Tom,

That sounds like a good plan.

One Ham I know told me he Wipes and Reinstalls everything every few
months on his HDD.
He said his computer works better when he does that.

I've never wanted to do that, if it works don't mess with it. - TW

A few weeks ago I defragged my HDD, it has been a long time since I've
taken the time to do that.

I Booted up after a Shut Down and watched the Cyborg Blue Light move 56
times before it paused, and then the Cyborg did 2 more left to right
scans and finally let me see the Log On screen.    Not Fun!

Why didn't IBM/Microsoft put everything needed to start up the pc in
ROM like the Commodore 64 and 1541 FDD does.
That seems like a better way to me.

Dial Up Modems have EEPROMS in them.
(Electrical Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory)

I don't know if the modems OS is on that chip or not, it may be only
used for storing the users perferred settings.
You or Someone else here will clue me in.

After somebody (Jean???) talked about using Hibernation instead of
Shutting Down their pc, I started doing that and found that I can use
my computer a lot sooner after POST is finished.
(Power On Self Test)

73

... Reality-ometer:  [\........]  Hmmph!  Thought so.........
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