Guys, i have a big problem on my hands that may result in a loss of 30-40 hours of illustrator drawings due on monday for a jury.
Anyway: while i was running Illustrator on my computer and being connected to someone elses I-tunes music (on the network) the music suddenly stopped and I-tunes would not pull up from the task bar. I hit show desktop and i-tunes was trying to rebuffer the stream so i hit cancel and moments later my computer turned off. it seemed, however, to still be running and the screen was off. No noise from the hard drive though. So i powered down, and reattempted a power up but no screen no boot nothing. Brought it to the computer labs here and plugged in a lcd via DVI port. Nothing came up. I let my computer sit for a while and when turning it on it brought up the hard drive screen and then locked up. I almost concluded the fans must have been the culprit, but after letting it sit for an hour and trying again, it went through the windows loading screen and then locked up. Another attempt I made by letting the computer sit for a good while, then booted up and went straight into the BIOS. It went into the BIOS and then it locked up within there.
This is all the information i have and i plan to bring it to a shop tomorrow to get it checked out, but if there is anything else i can try, i am willing to do anything to get my floor plans and elevations back. Thanks!
Note: two things may also be part of the problem. Wednesday i took my computer out of my backpack and i heard a loose screw somwhere on the inside, i took it apart and got the screw out. The other thing was a completely out of the blue, BSOD while running Illustrator, that occurred some 2 -3 hours before my crashes tonight.
I am in need of you today, please cure this dilemna.
Zach
Anyway: while i was running Illustrator on my computer and being connected to someone elses I-tunes music (on the network) the music suddenly stopped and I-tunes would not pull up from the task bar. I hit show desktop and i-tunes was trying to rebuffer the stream so i hit cancel and moments later my computer turned off. it seemed, however, to still be running and the screen was off. No noise from the hard drive though. So i powered down, and reattempted a power up but no screen no boot nothing. Brought it to the computer labs here and plugged in a lcd via DVI port. Nothing came up. I let my computer sit for a while and when turning it on it brought up the hard drive screen and then locked up. I almost concluded the fans must have been the culprit, but after letting it sit for an hour and trying again, it went through the windows loading screen and then locked up. Another attempt I made by letting the computer sit for a good while, then booted up and went straight into the BIOS. It went into the BIOS and then it locked up within there.
This is all the information i have and i plan to bring it to a shop tomorrow to get it checked out, but if there is anything else i can try, i am willing to do anything to get my floor plans and elevations back. Thanks!
Note: two things may also be part of the problem. Wednesday i took my computer out of my backpack and i heard a loose screw somwhere on the inside, i took it apart and got the screw out. The other thing was a completely out of the blue, BSOD while running Illustrator, that occurred some 2 -3 hours before my crashes tonight.
I am in need of you today, please cure this dilemna.
Zach
