Yesterday I had a scary cable experience.

Firefox crashed with a "Unhandled Exception" error. Then no application would start. Rebooted, and got a message about "Insert proper media." No bootup.

Went into the BIOS, found that the system drive (C:>) was not recognized. Opened up the computer, and hallelujah, the power connector for the C:> drive was slightly askew. I blew and vacuumed all of the dust out of the inside, reseated all power and data connectors for all drives, and voila! Computer lived once more.

This was scary because my backups were not current (they were about five or six days old) and I would have lost about 40 hours of work. Not to mention the possibility of having to reinstall all of my applications.

tanstaafl.