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In the old CRT days that could be plausible, but in these days of lcds and switching power supplies it seems less likely. But as this article describes, you ne

• Paul-Craft 4y ago
  Indeed, do you never know. I don't honestly think turning it off and back on would do anything, either. I also don't have one of those chairs, nor do I want to buy one and use it to test the theory. But, turning it off and back on again is a simple and easy thing to do that should be reasonably safe for the equipment. There is, after all, a reason why power cycling equipment is often a first step to diagnosing and/or fixing weird problems. :)
• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  > But as this article describes, you never know! When we were teenagers, my friend used to call it "waving a dead chicken". He coined this term to describe the way he would resurrect dead inkjet printers that even I gave up on - by disassembling and reassembling them until they started to work again, while being perfectly open that he has no idea how it could fix the problem, just that in practice it often did. While this was just a funny term and pretty absurd approach for fixing things (even though it worked!), I took away from it an important realization: the scope of possible causes of a weird, randomly-occuring problem is much larger than I'd normally assume. Over the years, I learned to identify some "outside context" things for computers - ESD, thermals, UV exposure, RF interference, voltage spikes in power lines, devices being almost but not quite connected. Because of that, when in a bind, "waving a dead chicken" may just be called for - in forms of e.g. percussive maintenance (hitting the thing with a wrench), moving things around, switching cables, disassembling, etc.