February 5, 2008

Nex is dead!

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:

You may be wondering who Nex is. Well it’s m notebook, a Dell Latitude D600 I bought about 3 years ago, when starting my studies at ETH Zurich. It’s dead…

It all started a week ago when all the sudden the disk started to spins uncontrollably (much higher than the 5′400 RPM it’s supposed to do), so I shut it off with a hard reset, when booting again it complained that it couldn’t find the primary disk, so I let it turned off for a while, and miracle, it started again. It scared me so much that I decided to start making backups, and not a day to soon. I set up a simple rsync script that would sync my homefolder to another box, so I could at least go back if all went snafu.

Today it did. After some clicking noises, the notebook started not reacting properly and I decided to shut it down… it never came up again…

Well, hopefully I can get hold on a disk soon because it’s my main working machine. Until then: Rest in Peace Nex :D

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