Uggh... what a bonehead

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:29:51 Post Subject: Uggh... what a bonehead

I fired up my second pc tonight and it made the whole network really weird... all the activity lights on the switch were blinking and no other pc could get on the internet... Thought it was a virus, so I checked that, then thought windows was bad so I reinstalled... Didn't think it could be the switch since it worked fine with just the other pc connected...

Then I decided to look at the switch, and noticed an unused AC adapter plug near it and got confused... Traced the wire of the two AC adapters back to the surge protector and realized my switch was plugged into my cell phone charger... Instead of 7.5V it was only getting 3.7V... Bang Head

Adding the second pc drew too much I guess... Laughing

trekrider · Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:55:09 Post Subject:

So you ran your network through the switch to the cell phone to your ISP??? HAHAHA

Dud3! · Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:00:25 Post Subject:

Umm, I believe he was using his cellphone's power adaptor to power his switch, not using the phone for his network. :p

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:06:23 Post Subject:

I blame Hercules... umm, Hercules the soundcard. While I was re-installing everything on my main pc this weekend (after making the RAID array bootable), the Hercules software said to disconnect the internet connection... So I just unplugged the switch... Laughing

- Apparently didn't plug it back in right!! Grin

Red Squirrel · Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:58:56 Post Subject:

Haha that's funny. Hey it could of been worse with higher voltage instead of lower, I gave a hard drive 17 volts once. It wasn't pretty. Grin

Not to meantion it was AC.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:02:17 Post Subject:

*mental note* don't allow BB near my network gear.

Dud3! · Posted: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:48:35 Post Subject:

Well I had disconnected the Cat5 from the wall in my room and disabled my NIC to test some wireless deals. After I was done, I enabled the NIC and put all my network settings back, then proceeded to try to figure out why it didn't work.

I went at it for about five minutes before I remembered the Cat5...... Laughing

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:54:33 Post Subject:

Funny, been there, too... Umm... I'm guessing the Evil one adjusted your title?!? Yikes

Where you been, sent you a pm a few days ago? Oh well...

Dud3! · Posted: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:38:35 Post Subject:

It wasn't adjusted here was it? He changed it at IANAG though....

I've been busy, and was playing with my camera the last two days when I wasn't busy. And my connection was down yesterday, soooo.........

Where's the PM? I don't see one anywhere.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:39:59 Post Subject:

I deleted the pm, and I changed your title back... the offer 'expired' in the pm, and the title was grosser than I'd like to see over here...

I'm sending you a new PM now! Grin