[NBLUG/talk] The curse of intermittent USB failures strikes again!

Jippen cheetahmorph at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 12:05:33 PST 2007


Could be a humidity thing. I seem to have problems with my knee during
the same time of year.

On 1/13/07, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:08:14PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> >
> > What I have noticed is that these failures are following an interesting
> > pattern: they only seem to manifest themselves in January and sometimes early
> > February.  And, no, I don't think there's anything unique about how I use
> > this computer during that time of year (at least not anything that would make
> > a difference to computer hardware).
>
> The dates do seem weird, and I'd be tempted to discount that data point
> entirely except that I have seen weirder things.  I can't believe I'm even
> going to suggest this, but did you try setting your hardware clock to, say
> June?   Don't forget to temporarily disconnect from any NTP servers.
>
> Failing that, get a shaman or a new mobo.
>
> -t
>
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