Aishai opened this issue on May 12, 2005 ยท 16 posts
destro75 posted Thu, 12 May 2005 at 12:20 PM
Yeah, you may have wrecked the hard drive. Keep in mind, Poser uses a lot of memory when it runs, especially rendering. Since no one seems to have enough RAM to handle Poser, it writes to the "swap file" which is an area of the hard disk the OS uses to sort of fake RAM. Your drive was probably spinning hard when you hit the reset button, resulting in the spindle heads touching the disk platters. Yes, this sounds like techie mumbo jumbo, I am sure, but trust me when I say it is never a good idea to hit the reset button. It shouldn't even be there, but the manufacturers leave it for some strange reason. As Krissta said, use Alt-Ctrl-Del and stop the program that way. Better to lose an hour's work, than all of the files on your computer.