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CB radio damaged a database ????
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02/09/2003 17:42:07
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00825339
Message ID:
00825498
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16
>We have a location that has been having bizzare database problems. We fix it and it's damaged again very soon. Then someone noticed that a CB radio was sitting on top of the PC. They moved it and so far there has not been any more problems.
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>Has anyone else heard of such a thing? I would have thought a PC would have any shielding it needs to stop that from happening. I hope this is the reason so that the problems are no more, but I'm surprised it make a difference.
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>If this is somehting that cna happen, is there a good way to test for these types of problems.

I assume that computers are designed to withstand a certain amount of EM frequencies, but that putting the radio directly on top of the computer turned out to be too high a level.
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