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From: kony on 19 Jan 2010 20:23
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:02:32 -0000, "Tinkerer"
<invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:

>
>"kony" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:50:43 -0000, "Tinkerer"
>> <invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That is possible although I think unlikely as when we first tried to get
>>>Outlook Express working we opened the case because the graphics card's
>>>cooling fan had fallen to pieces and we fitted a replacement card. After
>>>that, Outlook Express still failed to bring anything down from the server
>>>although in all other respects the PC and Windows still worked fine. To
>>>be
>>>honest, when it first happened I suspected the ISP's mail server but
>>>discounted that when I found that creating the account on any other PC
>>>resulted in a successful download.
>>>
>>>The only explanation that I can come up with is that, due to the power
>>>supply/system fan not working, the PC was running too hot. The bit I
>>>don't
>>>understand is why the only thing that was affected was Outlook Express's
>>>ability to connect to the mail server while everything else continued to
>>>work perfectly.
>>
>>
>> Probably just one in a billion bizarre coincidence. Why
>> would it work on another system? Likely the mail server was
>> intermittently down, it just happened to work when you'd
>> tried on another system.
>
>I agree that it was most likely a bizarre coincidence but when it worked on
>one and not the original they were side by side. Plus the fact that it
>would not get mail for around six weeks before suddenly working after the
>fan was fitted. There obviously is an explanation for it all and it is
>probably something perfectly simple but at the same time totally obscure (if
>that makes sense).


Yep, the only plausible thing I can think of would be if the
system had excessively large packets some networking
equipment wouldn't accept, and when the system was rebooted
it applied new networking settings - that having it off to
deal with a fan was just the event causing the OS reboot.
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