Posted: 6/11/2016 12:18:36 AM EDT
| So tonight while I was stringing together QSOs, my computer freaked out and I'm not sure why or how to fix it. Basically, it keeps losing my keyboard. I had to keep unplugging it and plugging it back I to make it work for a couple of minutes. I restarted my computer twice, the first time it told me I was going to have to restore from my back up hard drive, which it then told me was not configured to be restored from and wouldn't connect to the Internet. I shut it down the second time and moved the keyboard to a front USB instead of the hub plugged into the back where it's always been and when I restarted things seemed to be fine. My question is why has it gone Tug Speedman on me |
| I'd be doing a full backup and plan on re imagining when i had time. Could be the OS freaking out on ya or could be the HDD letting you know it is going to crap out soon. If it is a main workstation Id buy a new HDD and ghost it that way you are set if it craps out. |
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The keyboard issue sounds like a dead ringer for an RFI ingress problem - the radio wavez are flowing into either USB or the keyboard chips and making them do crazy things. How do you have your radio/grounding/power/antenna setup in your shack? Quoted:
The keyboard issue sounds like a dead ringer for an RFI ingress problem - the radio wavez are flowing into either USB or the keyboard chips and making them do crazy things. How do you have your radio/grounding/power/antenna setup in your shack? The computer is about a foot away from the radios and coax runs the opposite direction to the window, same place it's been for the last few months. Nothing changed there except the main radio, which I guess could make a difference I'm not sure Quoted:
I'd be doing a full backup and plan on re imagining when i had time. Could be the OS freaking out on ya or could be the HDD letting you know it is going to crap out soon. If it is a main workstation Id buy a new HDD and ghost it that way you are set if it craps out. I have an external HDD that stays hooked up that is supposed to be backup/recovery, but I'm not sure now if it's set up right so I guess I need to figure that out. I did move the keyboard to a different USB port on the front and didn't have any more issues, but I don't really want to leave it there permanently |
| Sometimes when I transmit at 500W CW on the low bands I will lose my keyboard and have to unplug and reconnect it. It's still done it since I added a ferrite so I'll have to keep working on it. This only started with my new i7 PC that I recently built. It did not do this at all with my old PC. The new motherboard is an ASRock with "Full Spike Protection" on the USB ports. |
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Honestly, not very well at the moment. I need to pick up a distribution block to tie all my grounds into and run outside, I just haven't had an opportunity between work and rain Quoted:
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I'm also suspecting RFI how is your station grounded ? Honestly, not very well at the moment. I need to pick up a distribution block to tie all my grounds into and run outside, I just haven't had an opportunity between work and rain BOOM you need a low impeadance single point ground 
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Had same problem with my first shack set up. Cheap mouse and key board had no beads on cords from factory.
I went on the over the top mission- put beads on each end of every cord that went from radio or computer. Grounded the computer case to ground buss bar. It did fix my problem. New shack has better key board and mouse, plus planed ground system when building house. Invest in the snap on beads Some light bathroom reading for you: http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf |