Hugh,
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 5:07 pm, you wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Yesterday we had a little rain compared to New Orleans and Naples
> etc. but a pretty big downpour for us and a few bolts of
> lightening.
>
> Bang! went the local sub station and the whole of west Sussex was
> out of power for 3 and a bit hours. Tough I hear you say but then
> when our power supplies are so very stable (dare I say unlike some
> areas in the US) it was so annoying.
>
> However, my server refused to reboot although everything else did
> Ok when power came back (how do the machines know they were
> switched on?)
>
> Thinking that the message from the boot screen was a warning "BIOS
> incorrect" carry on or load defaults? I went into the BIOS and saw
> all was Ok so I rebooted - or not as nothing happened. No screen no
> POST nothing.
>
> Thinking the worst I looked at the connections and had to remove
> the mains plug to get it out of it's 'hole'. Wiggled a few things
> and put mains plug back at which point - machine booted Ok.
>
> Any ideas as to what happened?
>
>
> Sir Hugh of Bognor
>
>
> Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to
> find it!
>
> Hugh Gundersen
Whats known in the trade as a "Gremlin".... You scared it away !! ;-)
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
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