No, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Those were two different events, not connected in anyway. I have had this problem with connecting, downloading blocks and finally seeing my transactions for a long time BEFORE my system crashed for a completely unrelated reason.
This problem started several months ago when I requested one bitcoin from an online wallet to be sent to an Armory address before ever snychronizing and downloading the block chain. I think this was a big mistake because I never had the downloaded any blocks even on previous version of Armory and Core.
It's preferable to get Core and Armory sync'ed before sending coins to your wallets. Some people don't realize the hardware requirements for Armory are kinda high. I'm not sure if you are experiencing the known issue on 0.93 (for which we are currently testing a fix), or if it's a setup issue. At any rate, you should produce some log files.