Years of Poems and Spirits

For the last month or so, I have had a strange problem: the desktop will occasionally just die. Power out. Not even a blue screen.

What is more, I found out that it happened mostly when I was about to leave my desk, when I was in the middle of sitting up from the chair and turning away from the desk (the unit is on the lower left of my desk).  Then Poof! the noise level suddenly dropped, I turn back and the screen went blank.  I didn’t believe those two events (leaving and sudden death) were linked. But once I started to have this connection in mind, they never failed to take place together. Not that every time I left the desk the computer died. But every time this sudden death occurred, I was in the middle of leaving.

The only thing I can think of is that somehow the act of me leaving disturbed the unit in some way that the power supply or the motherboard just reset. But I am a good foot away from it, never physically in contact with it (not even through the desk). The fans run OK and the temperature readings are normal. The computer is surge protected–on the same power strip that another two are plugged in but never had any problem.

That has to be the strangest thing in a while. Do I have a magnetic field around me?! For a moment I thought about sending this as a story to Dave Barry. Unbelievable.  I searched the Net but couldn’t find any related incidents, let along to say solution.

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