While I was pondering that, the power went out.Yup, the UPS was sitting on the dryer in the laundry room charging up....
Wait, you have to disconnect your UPS to charge it? I thought most were designed to charge themselves, regardless of whether they were attached to their machines or not.
I rebooted and the machine is hung at "Verifying DMI pool data".
That's before it loads anything from the drive, isn't it? I'd suspect the power outage also contained a couple of spikes, which may have damaged your m/board.
Go into the BIOS and tell it to "reset ESCD data", if it has one of those under the PCI/PnP settings. That might help.
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