Re: My computer completely crashed

Dave Uhring wrote:

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:01:00 +0000, Unruh wrote:
Beej Jorgensen <beej@xxxxxxx> writes:

How did the mouse get in there? Seal the case up better. Put mesh on
the fan openings to keep bugs out if you have to. (Keep them clean,
because a fine mesh will accumulate lint in a big hurry and block
airflow.)

Well. I think the OP was a joke, but I guess it could happen.

It not only could happen it did, to one of my old machines. The mouse
turds were unpleasant but their piss corroded a number of copper traces.

I had pulled a NIC from a PCI slot and left the back panel slot open.

Ok .. back in the old days in a lab (we did animal nutrition analyses as
well, so we had one or the other sample stored) we had a blood analysis
machine back in the late 80s, huge device with a round-table sampler and
little vessels circulating on a chain in a water bath, while passing
automatic pipettes and a photometer in the end.
Some day the machine went haywire and pipetted junk or showed cryptic error
messages. The technician took a deep dig into the innards and found
little "pellets" on the position sensor plate. Well, there must have been a
mouse doing "some" business inside :)
Uhm, after a more detailed inspection of our sample storage places we found,
there must have been some more mice at w0rk ...
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