[rescue] mysterious hard hangs, two different sun4m's

Al Potter apotter at spankingnuns.com
Tue Sep 3 22:14:24 CDT 2002


Think: Janitorial Staff

Floor Sweepers don't typically reach up on the desk.  It could be physical 
trauma (bump, Bump, BUMP), or EM noise from the relatively high amp and 
probably poorly shielded motors in the sweepers.

Then again, it could be $BOFH_Excuse.


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AL


> Ya know, sometimes it's not that dramatic.  In an office of a client of
> mine, a girl used to have a PC (yeah, that was her first problem0) that
> crashed constantly, at least once a day.  She was basically told to live
> with it, so she did.  Then she moved her office around, and put the PC
> on her desk, and it didn't crash on her for months.  Then when she got a
> new PC, it was put on the floor, and had stability problems.  After it
> was moved to on the desk, all was fine again.  Two machines that had
> problems on the floor, and were fine on the desk.  There's nothing near
> there that i know of that would cause such problems (they're a RV
> manufacturer).  And that's not the only room in that building that has
> strange problems like that.
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
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