Charles,

Well, not move - BUT he may want to have a licensed housing electrician
check out the electrical specs for where he lives. He could be living in
an older place that has wiring installed pre-current code specs. Or
other similar issues.

Back in Illinois, in the subs of Chicago, where I grew up, my parents
had to get their home up to current electrical code, which meant
replacing the fuses with circuit breakers, and have new boxes put in,
where the electrical wiring enters the house. Once that was done, that
corrected a number of electrical issues in the whole house.

Also, have seen some VERY strange things happen with any number of
electrical/electronic devices when someone(s) is involved with
high-energy type operations, such as ham or similar type systems, and
not enough protection of the transmition equipment is not done
correctly.

Ralph


Charles Harris wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently built a PC for a customer.  Specs: AMD 1.4Ghz proc, 512MB DDR
> sdram, 320watt power supply, 2 CD type drives, 2 hard drives, 4 PCI
> cards, an AGP card and AMR modem.  He has his own external Zip drive and
> NEC 19" monitor.  The machine worked normally while I worked it.  He gets
> it home and can only get the "Windows Protection Error, you must
> restart..." error and Safe Mode.  He brings it back here, and again, it
> works just as it should.   Previously, he had an ATX machine running 250
> watts with the same monitor.  Can his monitor, surge suppressor, or
> possibly even his house current be at fault here?  I'm hoping for a good
> answer here because I really don't want to tell the guy that if he wants
> his computer to work, then he's going to have to move!
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
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