[PLUG] Hardware problem

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Sat May 11 02:16:16 UTC 2002


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Steffens <rsteff at attbi.com> writes:

Richard> One of my machines is set up under a leather topped, metal
Richard> table. The monitor is on a laminate over particle board table
Richard> with metal legs set at 90 deg to the metal table. The mouse
Richard> pad is on the metal table. (See ASCII art(?), below.) From
Richard> time to time, I'll feel a static shock when I walk into the
Richard> room and touch the table, or even sit down on the Steelcase
Richard> chair that is on a plastic mat over the carpet. Some of those
Richard> times, my computer does a hard reset. Would grounding the
Richard> tables and the computer case help, be a good idea, or a bad
Richard> idea?

I think you want to ground yourself.  I frequently walk back into my
office and zap myself *on the desk*, not electrically in contact with
the mouse or anything attached to the computer at all, and my mouse
stops working.  I just Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F7 and I am golden
again.  During the winter, when I become zap-shy from repeated
discharges, I make a point of discharging to a door frame before I get
near my desk.  And, actually, I've found particle board seems to have
good electrical properties for draining away voltage accumulations
without the spark.

-- 
Russell Senior         ``The two chiefs turned to each other.        
seniorr at aracnet.com      Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible       
                         profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
                         extremely unusual.' ''                      




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