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

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Wed Sep 4 00:09:32 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.... 

Don't forget about the mouse, keyboard, video, etc. cables.
Those are rarely properly shielded.
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Eric Dittman
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