Path: 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
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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...

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