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BIOS failure from strand of hair
Name: Jerritt Date: January 2, 2003 at 21:45:21 Pacific OS: Win98se/RH 8 CPU/Ram: XP 1.3/256
Comment:
Laugh at me all you want but I will swear on my hard drive this is true. After turning on my computer tonight, I get a CMOS/GPN checksum bad. I could only get the error to return if I would turn the computer off and wait a few sec. After cycling the power(both rebooting and unplugging everything), visiting the BIOS setup utility hundreds of times, checking the battery, and changing the battery, did I notice a strand of hair(I think it was a dog hair) near the bank of jumpers. I left the hair there and finished changing the battery. I booted up, edited BIOS settings, cycled power, and I still got the error. I removed the hair, booted up and the problem was no more. I turned the comp. off and waited. I could not get the problem to return. I don't know about you all, but that seems strange. Is hair even a conductor. Perhaps it was the oil on the hair.
Name: Richard59 Date: January 3, 2003 at 04:19:42 Pacific
Reply:
Take a plastic comb. rub it vigorously on a woollen sweater. hold it close to your hair without touching. See the hair rise? Hair conducts electricity.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kurt Date: January 3, 2003 at 13:00:17 Pacific
Reply:
WRONG hair does not conduct electricity. What Richard is talking about is static electricity. Static electricity is from free electrons that have no electrical path to discharge along. This alone proves that hair does not conduct on it's own.
Now if the hair has some sort of material on it, it may conduct.
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard59 Date: January 4, 2003 at 03:11:18 Pacific
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