ZAP!

Jeff Golas · September 10, 2013, 12:46:08 PM

I think some spark plug wires are now just carbon powder to make em flexible.

I'd still look at outlet voltages and consider grounding issues...

Jeff Zylstra · September 10, 2013, 02:21:32 PM

Quote from: Jeff Golas on September 10, 2013, 12:46:08 PM
I think some spark plug wires are now just carbon powder to make em flexible.

I'd still look at outlet voltages and consider grounding issues...

Agreed on both points. Especially the loss of a phase. Our air conditioner blows a fuse for one of the phases about every 10 years. Of course, it's usually about 95 degrees out when that happens. Also, the tool and die place a block away gave us fits for a while when they'd use their new heavy press. It would cause a brownout and all kinds of weird behavior with anything electrical. They finally upgraded the transformer and we've had no issues since.

Mark · September 10, 2013, 04:54:03 PM

With the new switch in place, I have a new revelation. My workstation can only run at half duplex. That's 100mbps half duplex.

Love the info you can get from a managed switch. Makes my 40 minute login a little.clearer now. In fact, my profile is probably trashed due to this as well. I kept getting a registry recovery.

Oh well. Done all I could today.

The good news is we may likely move to VDI ASAP. Or after TENCon, then ASAP.

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Jeff Golas · September 11, 2013, 10:17:34 AM

Make sure your NIC drivers are up to date...amazing when you go back to a workstation that was rolled out 2 years ago to see drivers from 2009 (what used to be current) on them, only to find the nic drivers were updated a month ago lol.

In some other cases I've been able to get things to work better by specifying speed/duplex under the NIC properties instead of letting it auto-detect.

Mark · September 11, 2013, 11:07:45 AM

If I didn't have all this sudden and obvious damage with at least 16 machines, I'd do that. But, it's clear there is damage and this aint software related so I'm not going to bother.

Off to Best Buy for 3 more USB to ethernet dongles.

Bloody Jack Kidd · September 11, 2013, 03:57:35 PM

Have you declared a state of emergency yet?

Mark · September 11, 2013, 04:12:45 PM

Not really. We're running now. No need for Agility to come in at the moment

Jeff Zylstra · September 11, 2013, 04:21:17 PM

And I was already to send you my pith helmet!

Jeff Zylstra · September 18, 2013, 09:25:11 AM

Everything squared away, Mark? Disasters always fascinate the masses, especially when it's someone ELSE'S disaster.

Hope you're 100%.

Mark · September 18, 2013, 10:54:25 AM

Everyone is up and running but we haven't replaced anything yet. Gotta go through some motions before we do, and we are seriously leaning towards VDI so it may be a while before we do replace.

I'll definitly keep this thread updated.

Thanks!

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Jeff Zylstra · September 18, 2013, 11:03:26 AM

Glad to hear it. I was under the impression that some of your network equipment was fried and non-functional, so I'm interested in hearing what the culprit was.

Jeff Golas · September 18, 2013, 11:07:17 AM

Would VDI be the answer though? Wouldn't the VDI hardware be just as suseptible to whatever happened as any regular desktop, the advantage being the desktop could accept USB nics (or even a PCI nic) whereas a thin/zero client might not?

Mark · September 18, 2013, 04:31:38 PM

@JZ: yes, we lost ports on switches so did get a new switch. We lost ports on workstations so they are using usb dongles for now.

@JG: VDI is just the route we want to go regardless. Zero clients will be cheaper & easier to replace than a full desktop & almost no setup time. They do have usb ports and with PCoIP you can scan & can attach devices locally as if it were a full pc.

I plan to put a surge protector between the ISP & our equipment as well.

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