[X4U] Flushed his toilet

[Zane H. Healy]

At 4:23 PM +0100 1/23/07, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>When I worked as a technical-support specialist for a com-
>puter company, customer help calls ranged from the mundane
>to the bizarre.
>
>One memorable problem I had to trouble-shoot came from a
>man who complained that every time he flushed his toilet,
>his computer would reboot.
>
>It turned out that he lived in a rural area with water
>supplied by a well with an electric pump. Every time he
>flushed, it would turn on the pump, causing a dip in the
>electric power, which in turn would cause the computer
>to restart itself.
>
>Must have been a PC.

Don't bet on it.  All my computer equipment used to be in the second 
bedroom, and when my wife would turn on the fan in laundry area (just 
the fan, not the machines), my G4/450 AGP would wake up and freak 
out.  All the icons would go to one corner.  This happened more than 
once.  It was the only computer in the room that had problems.  It 
was also the only Mac.  The other systems were PC's, Sun's, a PDP-11, 
a VAX, and DEC Alpha's.

Zane


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