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Article #27626Re: Other unusual repairs...
From: Beckwith
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 23:00
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 23:00
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In article <2883@crash.cts.com> maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck) writes:
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< At the risk of sounding like a total loon, the "Hands-on-healing" approach
<to fixing computers (All-too-common these days) actually DOES work 50% of the
<time. (Well, it's better then calling the customers Brain-dead!)
<
We had a system that we thought was possessed. Got beaucoup I/O errors from
the disk. We'd replace a few parts and it'd get happy, for a while. Then,
"They're Back..." Any time we "laid hands" on the bugger, it'd be fine.
Turned out the building had a floating ground. System would start building up
a charge and we'd bleed it off by "laying on hands". We ran a proper ground
and the problems went away. I'm still trying to get my hands on the cretins,
uh, subcontractors who wired the building...
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+ David Macy-Beckwith Artecon, Inc. {sdcsvax,hplabs}!hp-sdd!artecon!macbeth +
| The Company has enough on its plate || "I didn't come here to argue!" |
+ without supporting the crazed postings || "Yes, you did!" +
| of its newsaholic minions. || "No, I didn't!" |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!artecon!macbeth From: macbeth@artecon.UUCP (Beckwith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Other unusual repairs... Message-ID: <923@artecon.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 23:00:27 GMT References: <2883@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: macbeth@artecon.UUCP (David Macy-Beckwith) Organization: artecon Lines: 20