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Assuming the software is not at fault, or that you don't
have conflicts caused either by the improper installation of programs,
misbehaving TSR programs, or even program addresses, page faults,
interrupt, or DMA conflicts between expansion boards, the most common
problem is poor contacts either in the computer (including the expansion
boards), the keyboard, or in the connectors which attach the computer
to its keyboard, printer, scanner, LAN'S, or other peripherals.
Yes, most of them can be prevented. As good as connectors
are, they are still the weakest link in your computer's operation.
There are hundreds of these connections in a typical computer system.
Outside of the obvious ones such as the connector that connects
the computer to the printer, or LAN connections, the computer itself
is full of electromechanical contacts. These range from the card-edge
connectors that are used on the various plug-in cards, to the numerous
types of sockets into which IC's are plugged. The interdependence
of the components within the computer is such that the erratic operation
of virtually any one of the contacts in any of these connectors
can "hang', 'crash' or 'lock-up' the computer. What is even more
frightening, is where the computer doesn't hang up, vital data or
the execution of a program sequence may be altered such that key
data is overwritten on a disk and thus lost.
