Warning! Save Your Midi Files

I think much more info is required to make any sensible guesses, but in the meantime, I'd do three things.

1) Check your CPU fan and Power supply fans are working, just in case its an overheating problem.

2) Try and find some sort of trend.... eg. after automatically shutting down, if you press the power on button , does it fail to start up, but if you wait 10 minutes its OK? The power button problem sounds like maybe like the button itself is faulty, but if it's OK when the pc is cold then maybe it's a heat problem.

3) Check all internal cables and wires are connected properly. ie no loose connections.

good luck

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I'm new to this site, so this reply may be a bit late...ish....
averi04... you haven't tried overclocking your cpu by any chance?? If so, you may have sentnced it to death
Hey Voice of God.... Have one HDD for C:\ drive and your data on asecond HDD. If someone can help you do a "Ghost" image of your C:\ drive onto a CD, you can restore not only windoze, but all your applications in one hit, just need a CD boot floppy when you replace the HDD

to save all your midfiles--upload ALL of them to midibuddy, safe as houses !!!LOL

hmmm good idea but i think tpearl would hate it. And wouldn't you hate it when a mod decides to delete your post with your midis.

Just set up a RAID stripe with parity and be done with it!

well if you run off raid 1 and if one of your hdds fail your screwed too!

ok touch wood but all i can say is i have 10 year old hard disks which work. thats why when you buy your computer make sure its not (check list)
1. from a small store with a little chinese man in it
2. golo bilo (pov stores here in aus)
3. a no name brand pc. u know thoes dodgy pc shops
4. a second hand one
5. a mac in general
6. one that hasnt been used as gun practise in texus

Originally posted by cake-raider
ok touch wood but all i can say is i have 10 year old hard disks which work. thats why when you buy your computer make sure its not (check list)
1. from a small store with a little chinese man in it
2. golo bilo (pov stores here in aus)
3. a no name brand pc. u know thoes dodgy pc shops
4. a second hand one
5. a mac in general
6. one that hasnt been used as gun practise in texus

actually I build my own computer so I know what goes in it so I can't blame anyone but myself if something goes wrong. BTW nothing has gone wrong because I'm still waiting except for the OS which i really have no control of.

I prevent crashes in several ways:

1. The SMART feature of my hard drive
2. A backup image on another hard drive
3. Backups of important files on DVD-RWs and CD-RWs.

-Scott

You can couple a promise ATA RAID controler and use 2 equal hard drives. The 2nd harddrive is a mirror image of the first. If one goes, you have the backup!

but it's expensive to have one for mirroring purposes only

It all depends on how much memory you want on your drives.

You can set up a good RAID configuration for both mirroring and speed for alot less then a SCSI RAID configuration.

Tom's hardware has a review of ATA raid cards ranging from less then $50 USD (perfect for common use) all the way up to $600 USD (for server use).

Check www.tomshardware.com for the card reviews.

A $50 card coupled with two ATA100 40 GB hard drives would run you less then $300 and be the ultimate backup. Being, the files are automaticly mirrored on the 2nd hard drive when they are saved/modified on the 1st.

Some good ideas here...
Another idea ia to create a ZIP or RAR archive of you midi/kar files and store it somewhere safe.
I do a weekly backup of my 14000 (some-odd) files, and copy it to another drive and to a CD. Small price to pay in time and CDs not to have to start your collection over again.
I'd recommend RAR over zip - the compression is better overall and it seems to be able to handle large numbers of small files much better than zip.

plus it's able to be split up into parts so they will fit on cds pefectly

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