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Found a weird fix for a repeating number glitch in my apartment
My digital clock in Phoenix kept showing 3:33 AM every night for a solid month, no matter what I did. I finally unplugged it, took the battery out for a full 24 hours, and plugged it into a different outlet across the room, and it just stopped. Has anyone else had a repeating time pattern that broke after a simple hardware reset?
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val_williams7mo ago
My old microwave in the kitchen used to get stuck on 0:00 all the time. It felt spooky until I realized the cheap control board was just failing. These things are basically tiny, dumb computers that glitch. A full power cycle fixes most of them because it wipes the faulty temporary memory. It's less about haunted outlets and more about cheap electronics being weird.
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tara7937mo ago
My buddy's fridge did that "dumb computer" thing @val_williams mentioned, just started beeping at 3 AM.
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allen.aaron7mo ago
Oh man, that's a classic power issue! I had a coffee maker that would flash 12:00 constantly. Turns out the outlet itself had a weird surge. Moving it fixed it, just like you did. Sometimes the wall power is dirty or the circuit is overloaded. A full reset and a new outlet clears the memory. I keep a cheap outlet tester now to check for wiring problems.
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