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

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at cats.ucsc.edu
Wed Sep 4 00:02:09 CDT 2002


> As the final step I had him build a crude Faraday cage to
> house the PC, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.  That worked
> pretty well, so they had a company come in and build a
> better permanent Faraday cage.  All is well now.

Theoretically the PC case is supposed to be a Faraday box, the fact that
it picked up the E field from a nearby powergrid would be enough to allow
you to report the manufacturer to the FCC. This is why I am always tempted
to report Fry's whenever I see one of those transparet FeeCee cases on
display.... 



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