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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (10955)	1/18/2000 11:53:00 PM
From: mph	Respond to of 32883

I have had crash nightmares and now take back-ups very seriously. My crash nightmares involve either red sports cars or the loss of a draft appellate brief.....<g> M

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (10955)	1/19/2000 10:08:00 AM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 32883

I am actually going to take it a step more in depth if need be. I am prepared to swap the platters (risky), as I am not 100% convinced it's the hard drive controller on the drive itself. Tried that with my friends' Quantum 2.5 gig. I had an identical one that'd become shaky enough that I'd backed it up long ago and removed it and was using it as a paperweight. Swapped the cards, which didn't help. I put my read/write heads in their drive and it still didn't help, although it at least tried to boot then. But Norton couldn't recover anything. How does your system get proper cooling (air flow) with the case apart (Bob)? Ummmm... It doesn't. Doesn't seem to cause problems, though. It's a tower so there's not any trapped air. If there's air moving in the room, it's going to go across nearly every part of this machine. Granted, it's not as much airflow as I'd get with the case put together, but it's some. I bought this case pretty recently, but haven't put the covers on because it won't fit in the space my desk has alloted for it. I'm going to have to swap it out for a smaller case. This one's too tall by about 1", and this desk is too nice for me to get away with cutting on it. Can't remember the brand name of the case, but it's a very tall tower. Got it when I upgraded to ATX. Bob