Computer crash

12 settembre 2025

It can happen to all of us: a computer that "explodes". That's what happened to us this week. Fortunately, it wasn't that bad, but it was very disruptive. Suddenly, the computer became so slow that it took more than 10 seconds for a single letter to appear on the screen. Not workable. The first thought was: insufficient memory. So, a new, larger memory card was installed. That didn't help. A second expert thought the hard drive was damaged. Difficult to check, so we had a new drive installed. Finally, the computer was happy again, and so were we. Fortunately, we had recently made a completely new backup of all the files. So the damage was limited to endlessly copying and recopying data, with the loss of time involved.

News archive