Over and over, and the longer it runs, the worse it gets. I thought I had solved the problem, but nope. My current desktop computer was like a hundred and a half when I bought it, used/refurbished, almost three years ago. So I guess I have got my money's worth, and nearly all my writing is saved elsewhere.
Not everything else is. I'll recover what I can and keep moving, but it's annoying and unexpected. And yes, once I have a replacement up and running, I'll be checking for thermal issues and other simple stuff.
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1 year ago
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It's so frustrating for one's computer to take a nose dive and it's usually when you need it the most. My Mac's have never had a hardware failure and the oldest one (2013) is now running Ubuntu for use with one of my 3D printers. And I use them everyday for hours. Yes, Apple computers are more expensive, but I think about all the hours I put into salvaging Windows crashes and I would love to have them back.
Anyway, what I can recommend, at the minimum, is getting an external USB backup drive as terra-byte storage is cheap now. Set a minimum back time like one a week and also setup automatic backups for those files you can't afford to lose when you save or update. I accidentally deep-sixed a couple of folders once and recovery was painless.
My daughter bought a refurbished tower a few years ago. She's pretty self-sufficient on computers; the first thing she did was wipe off Windows and replaced the OS with Ubuntu, and she experiments with other Linux distros. When that tower started crashing, she was VERY frustrated. I got into the boot menu, ran a mem test and found errors! One of the four DIMMs had started failing. We pulled it and all has been well since. I hope your issue is as easy to find.
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