[aklug] Re: Home server static issues

Quoting Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>:

> I had been working an setting up a server at home. From Amahi.org.
>
> It's a Linux based competitor for the Windows home server. Kind of
> slick, you should check it out. It is only set up to serve what's behind
> the gateway and not intended to face the Internet, although there are
> VPN tunneling provisions.
>
> I set it up on an older Dell Dimension 4100. P3 933 (I think) w/ 512 MB.
> I've had it running a few weeks, but hadn't really done anything with it
> at yet as I seemed to be having some stability issues with my setup. The
> box would freeze randomly and I hadn't been able to keep it up more than
> about 48 consecutive hours.
>
> I was about to write off the box as having a hardware issue, probably
> due to it's age. Maybe a bad mobo or some such. Decided to Google the
> box and see if anyone else had had similar issues with that model.
>
> I seems these boxes have a susceptibility to static. Leave them sitting
> on a good quality carpet with a high wool content in it coupled with a
> low humidity climate like we have here and it can get enough static
> build-up just from people walking across the carpet, that it builds up a
> charge and just freezes.
>
> I put it up on about 2 inch blocks to get it off the carpet and it seems
> like it may be cured. It has been up about 5 days running now.
>
> Check you outlet as well and make certain it is properly wired and
> grounded. Mine was, but I have seen them where they weren't.
>
> Jim G

This is a great story. I'm sure others have similar ones.

Mike B.

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Received on Thu Aug 13 14:53:08 2009