[ale] OT: Diagnosing HW problem

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

Chris Fowler said:
>
>> I think you might have misunderstood me...the system itself is one I
>> built
>> over three years ago and has been rock solid the entire time.  I
>> recently
>> added the additional hard drive (which was a source of my emails last
>> week), but the rebooting and freeze problems have started occurring the
>> last week.  So...it's either somehow weirdly being caused by the new
>> hard
>> drive (which I can remove and still get the problems, so I doubt it) or
>> it's something else.  My money is on the motherboard.
>>
> When you installed the new HDD did you wear a grounding strap?

Nope...know I should have.  But I did touch a metal part of the case to
try to discharge as much as possible.