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OMG!!! 12 days of work... destroyed!!!

silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
I had a single frame render running on my computer. It had a lot of polygons, and a lot of translucent raytraced materials (ie, very very complicated rendering). I had been running it on my XP Pro box for 12 days now without a hitch. I figure that one, maybe two more days would do it. I wake up this morning to find my digital alarm clock flashing it's numbers at me. Some fvcktard crashed into a power pole one block over... render gone.
 
Yeah,thats what got me into a ups.Since I got my ups I havent lost anything.I got mine for around a c-note at OD.When there is a power outage,it stays on for about 1 hour after which it shuts down in the proper fashion.Sorry,but its the only way to fly.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
I had a single frame render running on my computer. It had a lot of polygons, and a lot of translucent raytraced materials (ie, very very complicated rendering). I had been running it on my XP Pro box for 12 days now without a hitch. I figure that one, maybe two more days would do it. I wake up this morning to find my digital alarm clock flashing it's numbers at me. Some fvcktard crashed into a power pole one block over... render gone.
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Looks like you were handed a SOL Sandwich

Tough Break

Ausm

 
Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Yeah,thats what got me into a ups.Since I got my ups I havent lost anything.I got mine for around a c-note at OD.When there is a power outage,it stays on for about 1 hour after which it shuts down in the proper fashion.Sorry,but its the only way to fly.
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1 hour?! My APC only gives me 5-10 minutes. 🙁

Of course if someone hit a pole it probably stayed out longer than an hour.
 
Atleast it wasnt a co-worker coming in your office to politely tell you that the 2 weeks of work (and not just something running while you can do something else) you just finished for him has to be wiped out and started over. Or afterwards when you get their stuff working correctly with your setup (stuff you have never touched before that day and he was supposedly an expert in) they tell you the now current setup does not work with something else...

EDIT: Oh yeah, sorry about your bad luck.
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Yeah,thats what got me into a ups.Since I got my ups I havent lost anything.I got mine for around a c-note at OD.When there is a power outage,it stays on for about 1 hour after which it shuts down in the proper fashion.Sorry,but its the only way to fly.
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1 hour?! My APC only gives me 5-10 minutes. 🙁

Of course if someone hit a pole it probably stayed out longer than an hour.
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No joke. Mine does 10-20 minutes tops. But I have it set to shut everything down before then.
 
Can you guys give the model # of the UPS you are using...need to pick one of these up.

Thanks

silverpig...sorry to hear that. make up for it tonight...🙂

Have a safe and happy holiday
 
Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Yeah,thats what got me into a ups.Since I got my ups I havent lost anything.I got mine for around a c-note at OD.When there is a power outage,it stays on for about 1 hour after which it shuts down in the proper fashion.Sorry,but its the only way to fly.
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How f'ing large is this thing? I've got a 500VA unit on mine; Lasts about 10 minutes.
 
Well, a UPS may have helped in this case, but might not have.

When the power returns, do they turn the supply back to the wall and let your computer keep running? If so, then it would have helped.

The power was only off for about 3 minutes, but it was while I was sleeping.

However, if the power had been off for any longer than the UPS could supply my computer for, I'd have been SOL still. You can't shut down a single frame render part way and save it...


Oh, and the render was just a desktop thing I was doing for a friend. Just her name in a smoothed out text with ~45000 polys. I made it look like glass by applying a slightly flint tinted, 30% opaque, raytraced material to it, and then added a bumpmapped and textured water backing. It actually looked really good from what I had done. Sorta looked like the text was made of water and was just growing out of the pool or something.
 
Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Mine is a Belkin,from OD its the big one.
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The only way it could do an hour is if you are running an extremely out of date computer in my opinion.

 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Oh, and the render was just a desktop thing I was doing for a friend. Just her name in a smoothed out text with ~45000 polys.
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Only 45,000? Won't a good video card do 10 million a second?
 
Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: silverpig
Oh, and the render was just a desktop thing I was doing for a friend. Just her name in a smoothed out text with ~45000 polys.
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Only 45,000? Won't a good video card do 10 million a second?
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It's not the number of polys that is important, it's what type of filters have been applied to the polys that matter... albeit I know diddily about
graphics so I might be wrong.

 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Well, a UPS may have helped in this case, but might not have.

When the power returns, do they turn the supply back to the wall and let your computer keep running? If so, then it would have helped.

The power was only off for about 3 minutes, but it was while I was sleeping.

However, if the power had been off for any longer than the UPS could supply my computer for, I'd have been SOL still. You can't shut down a single frame render part way and save it...


Oh, and the render was just a desktop thing I was doing for a friend. Just her name in a smoothed out text with ~45000 polys. I made it look like glass by applying a slightly flint tinted, 30% opaque, raytraced material to it, and then added a bumpmapped and textured water backing. It actually looked really good from what I had done. Sorta looked like the text was made of water and was just growing out of the pool or something.
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Bro, send me the file. I'll have the render done in a few hours. 😉 😛
 
What kind of computer you got? I just rendered using 3dmax's default renderer, 640x480, high quality everything...

I'm using a 1.6 GHz XP btw...
 
UPS ... nuff said.

Anyone that uses a PC for critical work that doens't have one ... well let's just say it's a tough lesson to learn.
 
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