-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Start Up problems
- From: "Patti or Ken" <patken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:30 +1200
Thank you for your reply.
I spoke to SIL and he says he has a few customers with problems at present.
You could be right about the power issue as we have just had very bad
weather with power cuts. There is another storm predicted for tonight and
tomorrow!
In the meanwhile I have hooked up the laptop onto the 22" monitor and will
wait until SIL can get to see me early next week.
Patti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:23 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Start Up problems
> Patti,
> Frequent drive corruption is a sign of several things, but the fact
> that
> it's happened over more than one computer points to a possible power
> issue.
>
> In a typical home, all of the outlets and built-in electrical devices
> are routed from a single circuit breaker in the main power box. This
> means
> that everything in the room is sharing the same source of power. Take a
> quick inventory of all of the powered devices in the room where your
> computer is. Is there an air conditioner and/or a refrigerator in that
> room? Running your computer alongside either one of those is an absolute
> no-no because their compressors cause rather large spikes through the
> power
> lines every time they turn on & off. They can affect your computer's
> power
> no matter where they are in the house, but if they're in the same room,
> it's
> much worse.
>
> If you're running a lot of other things at the same time (TV, lights,
> fans, stereo), the net effect is that there's simply not enough power
> available to run everything, so each items gets less than it needs. It's
> not a problem for lights which will just burn a little less bright than
> usual. But a computer will suffer tremendously as it tries to figure out
> whether each bit flying by is a 1 or a 0 with less 'headroom' than it
> needs.
>
> Peace,
> Gman
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