Text 2715, 54 rader
Skriven 2005-02-27 01:20:34 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 2713 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: my electricity adventures, cont.
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From: Ellen K. <72322.enno.esspeayem.1016@compuserve.com>

Ha, right after I posted the below I lost the connection and then immediately
after that the electricity thing happened and took down my machine.

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:52:45 -0800, Ellen K.
<72322.enno.esspeayem.1016@compuserve.com> wrote in message
<cvn2219c54bav163rjnjmku4rhjddg8d7o@4ax.com>:

>Tonight I am online with the P II and while the power has not cut out,
>the connection has been terminated several times.  Could the phone
>connection being terminated do something to the electricity?
>
>
>On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:09:57 -0800, Ellen K.
><72322.enno.esspeayem.1016@compuserve.com> wrote in message
><q7h22153ktlja9vci7u81f9bau5h3nh7fc@4ax.com>:
>
>>Well, my USP should arrive Monday.
>>
>>Meanwhile I have a laptop from work that is not wonderfully useful
>>because I can't plug a mouse into it -- instead of a mouse port it has
>>one for TV.   Why such a configuration would have been ordered is beyong
>>me.
>>
>>Semi-accidentally, after the last "event" I only rebooted the P II...
>>that was on Friday afternoon and it is still running.   Now I am
>>wondering whether either
>>a) some kind of electrical problem could have developed in the Dell that
>>causes everything plugged in to the surge-protector thing with it to
>>also blow up; or
>>b) something happened to the surge-protector thing and it is no longer
>>able to properly do its full job but manages if only one machine is
>>turned on (to test this I should try with just the Dell turned on, have
>>not done that).
>>
>>For the last event, the laptop was also plugged into the surge-protector
>>thing and all three machines blew up.  It was the most violent event so
>>far, which I suppose could point to choice b) above.
>>
>>I'm sorry to be so hardware-ignorant, I keep saying "surge-protector
>>thing" because what I have is fancier than a regular surge protector but
>>I don't know what to call it.  I got it from Dell when I bought the Dell
>>computer -- in addition to the green light to show it's on it also has a
>>red one that lights up if it detects a problem with the building wiring.
>>(It lit up when I first got the system which was before I had my house
>>rewired.  It is not lit up now.)  It's semicircular in shape and fits
>>three of those box plugs that come with stuff like modems, plus five
>>regular ones.
>>
>>Any thoughts?

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