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mattNY:
--- Quote ---What's FUD? I know who FUDD is, but I don't know what FUD is. And I'm a 17 year ITS geek who works at a very large financial services company- nobody has more acronyms than us.
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Sorry - 'Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt' - it's a marketing term that is used pretty often in the PC industry. Sometimes it's unintentional, but often can be deliberate and used to scare consumers into buying or not buying a certain product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
P.S. I work for a military government contractor - they have quite a few acronyms too ;)
96SC:
Thanks for all the advice. The computer is in the hands of son's computer savvy friends. The only way I could mess with the inards of a computer is if every little component is labels with large orange letter i.e. 'THIS IS THE VIDEO CARD' OR 'THIS IS A MEMORY CARD'.
My son mentioned that when the message about the power surge came up he smelled what resembled 'something electrical burning'. And I do recall plugging a device into the USB slot one other time but the computer did not recognize the device that was plugged in, so maybe it was a bad USB and this pushed it over the edge (as someone suggested).
mattny, I work for the government and we have a mountain of acronyms, too. Top of the list is SNAFU and SSDD (Same S---, Different Day).
To all the Ipod fans. I wasn't directly trying to blame the Ipod for our problem it was the only thing that was different when using the computer when it 'fried'.
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This is what I have in my Sys,along with 7 other USB ports. I have a 5V and a 12V,which is rarely used.
The current symptoms suggest a vid card issue.....but it could also be your power supply I.E. a defective rail. I would also look into your CMOS/BIOS,and see if you can manually disable the USB ports,or disconnect them from the mobo.....and troubleshoot in that direction. If onboard Vid card,disable it in bios,and get 1 of your geek friends to use a cheapy plug in card,and see if you get pic. As others mentioned,verify that other stuff is running/operating, HD etc etc.
GL
wmccall:
--- Quote ---What's FUD? I know who FUDD is, but I don't know what FUD is. And I'm a 17 year ITS geek who works at a very large financial services company- nobody has more acronyms than us.
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I'm sure you are familiar with the old ID 10T error. We also had the DASH designation -Dumb Arse Poop head.
But my favorite was our BDU failure. It sounds like a computer term. When I was supervisor over the PC techs at CompuServe we would write "BDU failure" on a lot of our work orders. The Department Manager called a meeting one day and on top of the list was asking what we should do about all the BDU failures.
We suggested Shotguns, bricks, and ball bats. Then we had to explain that BDU meant Brain Dead User.
96SC:
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I'm sure you are familiar with the old ID 10T error. We also had the DASH designation -Dumb Arse Poop head.
But my favorite was our BDU failure. It sounds like a computer term. When I was supervisor over the PC techs at CompuServe we would write "BDU failure" on a lot of our work orders. The Department Manager called a meeting one day and on top of the list was asking what we should do about all the BDU failures.
We suggested Shotguns, bricks, and ball bats. Then we had to explain that BDU meant Brain Dead User.
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I definately quality as an ID 10T or BDU, when it comes to computer hardware and willingly admit it. Give me a good ol' on/off button, I can handle it. (Unless it's like my cell phone where none of the buttons make sense).
:-/
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