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Ever find a magnet on a computer
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| Bernie 2003-01-16, 6:57 am |
| I found one on my mom's computer last night, it was holding a 8x4 Calendar (so you can imagine the strength to hold this). Now, her slaved HDD is missing and in Outlook 2000, when you open a email to read, after you click on the X in the upper right (to close the email), the message completely disappears. I check deleted item and all over the mailbox, nowhere. It also does it when you have the preview pane on as well (ever seen this?) Rebooted with no luck. What has a magnet done to your computers? | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2003-01-16, 7:02 am |
| I haven't been dimwitted enough to place a magnet near any of my computers. Telsa coils on the other hand . . . | |
| jojogun 2003-01-16, 8:30 am |
| magnets and computers do not mix
bumb bumb bumb
swipe a magnet passed a monitor, do this only once | |
| Hippo 2003-01-16, 10:36 am |
| Tesla coils eh?
All that wireless energy; forget overhead transmission wires!
Nikola Tesla showed us the 'way to go' and got his research hushed up by the 'powers that be'. Shame 
Hippo | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2003-01-16, 10:38 am |
| Yeah, but they still make lots of neat sparks.  | |
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Originally posted by jojogun
magnets and computers do not mix
bumb bumb bumb
swipe a magnet passed a monitor, do this only once
Ever opened a hard drive ? | |
| cruss575 2003-01-22, 7:42 pm |
| You can actually run a hard drive without the case...for about a minute or so. if you have one of those 540 MB HDD lying around, give it a whirl! | |
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| What I mean is
inside the hard drive you will find a pretty strong Magnet,
so computers need magnets ! | |
| azimuth40 2003-01-22, 11:10 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by gauji
What I mean is
inside the hard drive you will find a pretty strong Magnet,
so computers need magnets !
Yup!! Voice coil acutator, basically the azz end of a audio speaker. Keep magnets away from floppies and the front of CRT's. They don't hurt much of anything else except the oscillator coils (little ferrite donuts with a few windings on them) for the on motherboard power supplies. | |
| MartyMcFly 2003-01-23, 3:59 am |
| don't place speakers to near monitors, TV's or your floppies either | |
| PotatoeHead 2003-01-23, 4:01 pm |
| what about mobiles?
sometimes i forget & leave the darn thing next to the monitor & get intermittent screen flickering
now how do ya explain that ?
& there's not even a call coming through at the time |
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