My cat was eating the phone cable

[Nuno]

No, I´m not kidding. It´s true.

The most amusing part was that I was off-line, I had just installed 5.25 and was benchmarking quake2 and I was getting about 30 fps and wondering WTF. The phone cable somehow shorted and my winmodem was like slowing the system. I don´t even know if that´s possible, but the moment I disconected the cable, all was back to normal. Then I spent half-hour repairing the cable. (but I must get a new one)

Oh my god... And no, I didn´t spank the cat, I love animals

So, next time someone starts complaining about the G400 performance I guess that´s a new item to troubleshoot (after irq conflicts and so on) - please make sure there is no animal eating your phone cable...

[Kx30]

haahhahahahhahahhah !

[agallag]

Good thing he wasn't chewing on the AC cable, that would've smelled bad (you know, burning cat hair )

My cats are living with my mom now, they'd probably be chewing on my exposed SCSI ribbon cables if they were here

[Snake-Eyes]

You know- give 'em enough food and the right kind of toys and they tend not to imagine that phone cables are spaghetti noodles.

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Ace

[tish beta2]

I once had a wasp in my printer and my unreal FPS went down to 1/s, but that's another story...