[X4U] Flushed his toilet

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Tue Jan 23 07:23:19 PST 2007


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.


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