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When A chopped through B's phone wires...
Two of us are in slight contention over possible damage to a computer.
We are hoping that the collective brains of this group might resolve the issue. Both of us have agreed this text. One of us is A. and lives in the same building as B, the owner of the computer. At issue is: What is the probability that by his actions A caused the damage described to B's computer. WHAT A. DID. A number of wires passed through a conservatory roof where A lives. These were mainly phone cables but also two TV aerial cables. Most of the phone wires went into a junction box then out of the junction box and back out through the roof. One of the points where the wires passed through the roof allowed rainwater to leak into the building. Knowing some of the wires to be redundant and believing them all to be so A. cut through them all and pulled them all back outside the roof. The two holes were then sealed. WHAT B. DID. On the same morning that A. did the above, B. tried to make a phone call but was unable and reported a fault to the phone engineer. On further investigatation B. discovered his phone wires were cut. "Gosh!" thought B. B. met A. and enquired after the state of A's phone, whereupon A. explained what he had done. "Oh dear!" they both said. WHAT A. AND B. THEN DID. They agreed that, between the two of them, they might manage to re-establish B's connection by trial and error. From among the tangle of chopped wires they believed they might be able to reverse the vasectomy. At first attempt they got a dialling tone, albeit with some background noise. At this point they believed they had basically solved the problem, even though B was still unable to make or receive a calls. WHAT B. THEN DID. B. decided to test his internet connection. B. connected his modem to his pc and booted up in the usual manner. Boot-up went as normal, and everything appeared OK. However, when B. tried to go online [AOL broadband] it appeared that there was no connection. B. thought no more of the matter and pottered about for about an hour. On returning to his pc the screen was all white with grey vertical bands and some red stripes. Next day an engineer put the matter right. What A and B had in fact done was reconnect to the wrong line. However, even with the now properly restored phone connection B's pc still had the weird grey with red stripes display. Seeking advice among friends the view seemed to be a knackered video card. One person suggested that if the incorrect connection had been to an ISDN line, "which carries twice the voltage of a normal phone line" that could somehow have fried the video card's brain. A different monitor was tried with the same result, thus eliminating the monitor as the problem. THEREFO I refer the right honourable members to my initial question; what is the probability that A damaged B's computer or B's video card either by a] initially chopping through the wires or b] by inadvertently connecting them to the wrong ones? B's pc is a Pentium iv, slot one running on XP. The video card is an Nvidia GForce 4. Many thanks for any help and/or advice! A. and B. |
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Many thanks for the post Alex.
Next day an engineer put the matter right. What A and B had in fact done was reconnect to the wrong line. However, even with the now properly restored phone connection B's pc still had the weird grey with red stripes display. Seeking advice among friends the view seemed to be a knackered video card. One person suggested that if the incorrect connection had been to an ISDN line, "which carries twice the voltage of a normal phone line" that could somehow have fried the video card's brain. Fanciful. Modems have to be designed to handle surges on the phone line and the ring voltage, so that wont kill the video card. A different monitor was tried with the same result, thus eliminating the monitor as the problem. THEREFO I refer the right honourable members to my initial question; what is the probability that A damaged B's computer or B's video card either by a] initially chopping through the wires or b] by inadvertently connecting them to the wrong ones? Zero. B's pc is a Pentium iv, slot one running on XP. The video card is an Nvidia GForce 4. Many thanks for any help and/or advice! A. and B. |
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Sorry! that should have been "many thanks Rod"!
Duncan |
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Many thanks Alex. For the record, the modem is an external one.
Duncan On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:18:43 +0100, Alex Harrington wrote: wrote: THEREFO I refer the right honourable members to my initial question; what is the probability that A damaged B's computer or B's video card either by a] initially chopping through the wires or b] by inadvertently connecting them to the wrong ones? So close to nil it's not worth considering. Any modem should be able to deal with line surges properly. You don't say if the ADSL modem is internal or external. If it's external then that probability drops even further... Alex |
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When A chopped through B's phone wires...
Many thanks for the post badgolferman. Probably none. But is a video card worth ill feelings between neighbors? Having had neighbor problems it might be well worth your while to buy him a new one. At the least let him see the rest of the replies and invite him and his wife over for dinner. And you are quite right! This is an amicable dispute and there is no question of war breaking out. Just trying to get to the bottom of things. Thanks again. Duncan |
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Many thanks for the post meow!
Duncan no chance. The phoneline isnt connected to the video card anyway. |
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