Thanks for the reply ... On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dean,
How far is the lamp from your monitor?
Very close ... perhaps 2 feet.
One possibility for the quiver is that the lamp's transformer (if it uses one) could be producing a large electric field which would affect your screen. I've noticed a similar situation where someone placed his computer on the opposite side of the wall from a refrigerator - huge electromagnetic fields there - everytime the compressor came on, his screen would squiggle like crazy.
Yeah, I think that's what is going on. I know that when the lamp is off, the screen is fine.
By the way, I would generally not plug in anything else into your computer's power strip except your computer and monitor, since they would be electrically "closer" to your computer and any goofiness of any of the other items on the power strip could affect your computer. In particular, I would be careful about plugging printers into the same power strip. I would put the computer on a UPS and ONLY the computer and the monitor (or related equipment, such as an external disk drive). Printers have extremely variable loads, and should not be plugged into a UPS.
Hmmm, this is good info ... I had not considered this before.
It would depend quite a bit on your computer why it would shut down mysteriously on you. Another factor (assuming it is external, since we can't really rule out a computer problem), is bad power from your electric company. If you have a brownout and your circuit is heavily loaded, voltage could drop quite low (below 90 volts is not uncommon) and your computer's power supply could shut down.
It could have been a drop in power, but no other appliance in the house showed any difference ...lamps, etc., so that doesn't seem likely. The weird thing is, the computer has operated flawlessly before and since. So far, a mystery.
California (I note from you sig) is quite notorious for having flaky power (so is Hawaii, for what it's worth). If you don't have a UPS, I would strongly recommend getting one. They're getting to be quite inexpensive, and well worth the cost.
Uhuh, Cal. is flaky in many ways, power being one. Yeah, I should look into this. When you say "inexpensive," how much are you talking?
Thanks again for the good info ...
Dean
Bruce
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean M. Estabrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:43 am Subject: [Finale] Fear OT
Ok, this is interesting. I just turned off a flouresent (sp) desk lamp plugged into the same power strip as my computer, and the screen quiver stopped. That doesn't explain why it shut down on it's own last night, but the lamp connection is obvious. Hmmmmm.
Dean
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