What's up with the computer at LLC? Someone installed two different screens and the computer doesn't go on, it keeps rebooting itself. I need to take off some stuff from it for the screening tomorrow...
Anka, Thursday I replaced the Apple monitor with a slightly larger monitor, it has a higher screen resolution (1920x1080 vs. 1680x1050) and is a bit bigger and should have good color reproduction & better viewing angles, it is IPS. If not the old monitor is near the GCEA computers. I also replaced the M.2 SSD Linux install on the Hackintush with a regular 2.5" SSD drive with Linux, the previous M.2 install was flaky, frequently giving me cryptic messages and not booting.
But I experienced some extreme weirdness when I was messing with the computer which I meant to report to the list, but my brain don't work so good any more, and it was never particularly great in the first place, so it slipped my mind when I got home.
First, I wanted to use the desk lamp with the CFL bulb to see
what I was doing under the table, but it wasn't working. The power
strip was plugged in near the Cat 5 jack, so I tried plugging the
power strip into the wall socket near the hackintush, no joy. I
tried another power strip, no luck, then I realized that the
lights on the power strips were not lit up, BOTH of
the wall sockets are dead. I astutely noticed all the extension
cords bringing power from outside of the office, so I plugged in
to an extension and finally was able to get a light on.
So I got on my belly and grabbed the Hackintosh and got a pretty
substantial jolt even though I had flipped the switch off on the
power supply. So I pulled the Hack's power cable and continued to
get little shocks most whenever I touched the computer's body. I
have NEVER had anything like this happen in a close to 30 years of
mucking with 'puters. I asked Dante if concrete conducted
electricity, and he didn't think so, but then he looked it up and
told me that concrete is an excellent conductor.
My guess is that whoever installed the electrical outlets,
cough...Gerald...cough.. mucked things up with the ground and
basically the whole office is now acting like some sort of ground.
I actually don't know shit about electricity, I discussed my
experience with Yar, Jenny & Rob, and they all said this sort
of thing shouldn't be happening, but they were a bit out of their
depths fixing it, and I should talk to my friend...Gerald. With
friends like me who needs enemas? Maybe Jake or Marc have a
theory, I'll CC the sudoroom list and the building folks.
Anywho, when I fired up the new Linux install I initially got the
same error messages that I was getting from the old M.2 Linux
install. So I tried O$X and got the same weird rebooting behavior
you got, Anka. On subsequent boots both the Linux and the Mac
sides worked fine, so I figured whatever it was had worked its way
out of the system. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot, and I don't need you
lot to remind me. FWIW, Windows booted like a champ when I fired
it up to adjust the monitors and update the operating system.
Before I could 'troubleshoot' too much more my first wife came by
the Omni to offer us a ride home, and I didn't feel like hoofing
it back 4 miles to home with with my geriatric mongrel Einstein.
So since I have never been shocked by an unplugged computer
before I'm guessing the machine is being surged with static
electricity and it might be damaging the machine, but is
certainly fucking with its functionality. What we may need to do
is hire an actual electrician to sort out the power situation in
the office if we can't find anyone to do it for free, I'll
certainly throw a C note or two at it at it.
In the mean time, we could try and figure out what doesn't
conduct electricity and put the computers on that. Diamond
is supposed to work well, but if we don't have enough of that
lying around, dry wood also apparently serves.
I can also try replacing the power supply, but I'm almost certain
that isn't the issue. In the meantime, at least with me, trying to
boot again seemed to work. I will duck my head in tonight after
the LL film and see if I can't scare up a little wood to put under
the machines (that didn't come out quite right, but you get the
idea).
Ed
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