I know this question may sound stupid but I have to ask it!
My kitchen fitter told me that I wouldn't be able to work from home while he was fitting my kitchen because (and here I'm a little vague) the pitch (or possible something else) of the powertools he was going to use could wipe my PC if I had it on while he was using his tools. He claimed a customer he'd worked for had said this was rubbish and ignored him...and then his PC was wiped.
Is this possible? Or maybe he was talking about an electrical surge or something? Or was he just trying to keep me out of the house so he could get on with his work without me keeping an eye on him?!
2007-07-31 10:59:41 · 4 answers · asked by britbird2007 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Surges or spikes caused by electrical devices can damage your pc if not protected by at least an anti-surge device. Though most of the cheap ones wouldn't stop a meaty spike from a big piece of kit used on the same curcuit. This could have caused the 'wiping' mentioned, but it could actually fry parts of your pc as well as the hard drive and processor. Smaller spikes would just cause your pc to crash and you loose stuff you were working on.
More people should invest in a decent UPS (uniterruptable Power Supply) basically a big battery to allow your pc to power down safely in event of a power loss or black out. Remember it only takes a brown out which dims your lights to crash your pc.
I've had a Belkin UPS for a couple of years now and never lost work due to brown outs or black outs.
They're a great investment and the good ones will even let you carry on working for 15minutes whilst the rest of the house is in darkness.
Check them out on amazon -
USA -
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UK-
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2007-07-31 11:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by The Book Garden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think this is possible, right now researchers are working on a CPU cooler that converts the heat from the CPU into very high pitch noise, and there has been no damgage to their computers.
however the vibration that the tools cause could do a bit of damage if they were very close the the PC
2007-07-31 11:06:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He could have meant Spikes, which can fry the whole motherboard, caused by the switching on and of of his power tools but it is more likely he wanted you out of the way so that you would not see any bodges he may have had to do
Check his work
2007-07-31 11:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by Chris CB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If his tools generate any kind of electromagnitism yes it could wipe your computers memory.
Or a strong power surge that they might creat in your house as well could run through the wires.
2007-07-31 11:06:34 · answer #4 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋