When you check for heat related failures, don't forget to check the little power supplies ... If those little brick-lets go bad, even intermittently they can cause weird problems on the device they power
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Art DeKneef [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: consumer routers resetting to default I thought that at a couple of places but when I asked if the kids might have the answer was no. So I left it at that. The others there are no kids. And when I went to a couple of places the thin layer of dust indicated it hadn't been touched in a while. And living near Phoenix, Arizona this time of year the heat issue was discussed but none of them were warm or hot. So I kind of dismissed heat being a factor. But I have worked on two different Sony Media PCs that are a few years old that were having hard drive issues. Both computers I had to replace Maxtor drives. They were so hot I could barely hold them. Did the freezer trick with both of them and copied all the files off so the owners were happy about that. It's just been a strange week around here with a lot of weird things people asking me to fix. -----Original Message----- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: consumer routers resetting to default Chris, I don't know if it is just me but those articles are very badly written and offer no links or data to back up the claims? Art, a long shot [considering the number of calls you made in two weeks] but could it not be related to heat or bored children pressing the reset microswitch for long enough to return to default settings? -- Peter van Houten ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
