maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck) (04/27/88)
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!)
The thing that suprised ME is that using a Hammer on a hard drive to fix it
actually DOES work. I've done it.
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Tom Schenck, member 52nd Street Development Team.macbeth@artecon.UUCP (Beckwith) (04/30/88)
In article <2883@crash.cts.com> maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck) writes: < < 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... -- + 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!" |