Re: Praise or accusations of work not done?
" it had "No Fucking Fault". Therefore a long soak test was required, "
Unfortunately I've run across unsoldered joints in equipment which work just fine (for a while) after the thing has been jostled around.
The bitch to diagnose was a batch of Intel server boards which would fail with various random faults. I finally traced it to slight PCB warpage caused by the case expanding and contracting. Pressing gently on the board in the top right corner caused an immediate lockup.
Intermittent faults are a curse - and when they're like that you don't want anyone even breathing hard near the thing in case it "fixes" it for a while.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
