On 09.10.17 09:06, sam sokolik wrote: > I am very doubtful that the red dye is causing the problem.. (I dissected a > few styes - all have shielded pairs)
Agreed. To see if the described "powdered copper wire" was the cause, I hacked into my replaced cable last night, and found that there's Al foil and a lot of clear polyethylene (or similar) in between. Furthermore, the substantial tinned conductors were pristine. So all I can truly report is that nothing would bring the machine back to life until I replaced the cable, and boot times and disk performance are 2 - 4 times better than shortly before it went catatonic. Reason? Dunno. So just a time-saving fortuitous coincidence? (It was the quickest dead-computer, can't be flogged back into life, fix I've ever done - less than 60 seconds.) Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
