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Around 2000: a colleague told me about his slow PC, rattling noises, random crashes. i did what any responsible workmate would do: told him to call IT support,
by franze 10y ago
Around 2000: a colleague told me about his slow PC, rattling noises, random crashes. i did what any responsible workmate would do: told him to call IT support, I'm a web-designer (well actually I was a frontend, backend developer, database guy and project manager but devision of labor in webdevelopment didn't happen yet so my job title was webdesigner, anyway...)!
5 weeks of various visits by the IT support later, including full replacement of all PC hardware and software - still random crashes.
so one day my direct boss tells me to take a look as the corporate IT support "couldn't do it". i just went over there and encounterd a desktop PC covered in refrigorater-sticky-note-magnets.....
turns out he removed them every time "so that the IT guys have better access to the computer"...
- bobbles 10y agoI doubt fridge magnets would have anything to do with problems in a PC, they would need to be about 100x stronger than that to have any sort of impact
- new299 10y agoIt's possible they were blocking all the vents and causing airflow issues?
- franze 10y agoIt was the beginning 00 years with, so old school magnetic hard drives and other old school hardware. Most of all it was reproduceable. With magnets ... slower, slower, rattling, slower ... 1, 2, 3 days later crash. Without: gone.
- dTal 10y agoSounds like it was somehow causing a fan to stick, hence the rattling and subsequent instability.