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#1 Posted : 20 February 2006 14:20:00(UTC)
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Posted By Arran Linton - Smith Does anyone have a procedure or a safe system of work for working on PCs or computer servers? Alternatively does anyone know of any guidance available for safely working on PCs and servers? I understand that there is a chance that the capacitors can store an electrical charge for several hours afterwards Apart from training and insuring that the computer is isolated before work, I am looking for other ideas. I need this to help us with the development of our own internal procedure.
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#2 Posted : 20 February 2006 14:59:00(UTC)
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Posted By AMJAD AL ATA Hi Arran, I do think that almost all what you may need in developing such SSW - to consider it as electrical equipment. (Electricity Related Risks) What I can add is to ensure that person who undertake such activity is competent, but the competence here may exceed that which may required for how to undertake work in an electrical equipment to cover issues related to PCs (particularly servers) for example the impact of server isolation on the entire network so that there must a reasonable knowledge on the network (that serevd by PC in question) - say how to put the network into an alternative server (or to apply other suitable means), and this is to prevent business interruption resulted from making network out of order due to isolation of server). I hope this of use Regards Amjad
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#3 Posted : 20 February 2006 15:38:00(UTC)
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Posted By AMJAD AL ATA Arran, I forget to add that such competence should include the knowledge of PC itself (for example the isolation to be made from electricity supply & the backup bateeries if existed, how to dismantel the PC internal components such as RAMs & Cards, how to deal with the sensitivty of some components as Hard Disc, which component is repairable & which is not ...etc) Regards
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