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Old March 15th, 2004, 07:56 PM     #3 (permalink)
Xinfinitum
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Last December I purchased a computer from CyberPower with the X Dreamer Case.

I gave it to my parents for a Christmas Gift. They use the computer minimally so it took awhile to figure out what was going on with it.

It kept inexplicably rebooting. After trying to figure out if it was a driver problem or a memory problem I had them run it for several days in Safe Mode, using it as they normally would.

Because it kept running for several days they never physically touched the machine.

When I went over to do further testing I touched the front temperature guage and the system crashed and rebooted.

At that point I knew we had an engineering design flaw regarding ESD with the Dreamer case. The scenario closely matched the problems I had with the Digital Alpha Server 2000, 2gig machine, back in the mid 90's.

After removing the front panel along with all the wiring to the power and LEDs, temp guage, USB ports, etc. it still crashed when a static charge was applied to the metal of the front of the chassis.

It has finally gone back to Cyber Power and I picked up an inexpensive Dell for my parents instead.

The X Dreamer case needs to be re-engineered for static problems. My advice is to avoid purchasing a system with that case.
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