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Subject: Re: I still have no idea why movei's hardware crashed in bar-ilan university

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 04:04:19 07/19/04

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On July 19, 2004 at 06:39:21, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On July 18, 2004 at 17:16:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Here it continues to works without problems so I did not fix it.
>>Here it works without problems as long as there are no power failures.
>>
>>There was only a single case when it crashed because of a power failure in the
>>last week and there are no crashes except that obvious crash.
>>
>>A Person told me after the game against shredder that it crashed when there was
>>a network failure but as far as I know it was not connected to the internet in
>>bar-ilan.
>>
>>I guess that I will never know the reason that it crashed.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Have you downloaded and installed prime95?
>http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
>
>Run the torture test (Blend) for at least 12 hours.
>If it errors out your Computer has most likely a hardware problem and you should
>consider to RMA it.
>
>Michael

And if the test works fine, repeat it, plugged the computer in near a running
old, electrical washing machine or near a electrical or radio frequency welding
device ;-)

Another reason is often a not proper connected 220V plug near the power supply.
Sometimes it strikes a light with some dark noise, and the computer behaves a
bit silly if not worse.

Gerd



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