New Year means New Problems

After experiencing connection problem because of the recent earthquake. Today i just found out my precious Ethernet Adapter dead .. and that is a Realtek 8139 Ethernet adapter .. and not just that … after booting into my Windows XP box and start up Mozilla Firefox browser for less than 15 minutes .. i got another problem ..

My SATA HDD (a Western Digital 250GB SATA150), suddenly keep turning on and off by itself (i can hear it's sound very clear) .. which caused my Windows XP SP1 box to crash .. and i had to force a hard reset and opening my computer case to fix the problem

After finished checking everything, i tried to boot into Windows XP once again and i tried to start firefox .. and .. guess what ? all of my firefox configuration, bookmark, plugins settings, etc .. has been lost

I dont know the exact problem, but i think it's related to the previous harddrive issue i had before. Fortunately i always keep backup of my firefox configuration so i can just fix it within a minute or so .. but wait .. the last time i back up my firefox configuration is over than a month old ! .. and that means .. i have to be prepared to lost some of my firefox configuration and bookmarks .. ah .. well .. i guess i can live with that ..

What a start for me in this new year … :-(