On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:58, Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> wrote:
I'm not clear; did your local computer repair people do something that meant your computer was functional by 12:00, or did it just magically come back?
It magically came back, the local repair shop had spent all morning telling everyone who had rung him that that was what would happen, he got to me, In response to my answer-phone message at about 12.30. I'd tried pushing the button once more after coming back from the post office, and whoopee it worked.
As a cheaper solution, would perhaps a decent surge protector or even UPS maybe do what you want? I picked up a £25 Belkin UPS from eBuyer last year and it's kept my machine up through various brownouts and power outages. Of course it still doesn't protect me from my own stupidity (like the time I knocked the power button while fiddling with cables under the desk).
Yes that's what he told me, as he'd spent all morning doing himself out of repair fees, I'll go in tomorrow and see what he can provide in the way of UPS, I've got my supply surge protected already. The power out was more of an excuse for something I want but don't need really, I'd rather save money as I'm trying to move at the moment. -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 20:12 +0100, J.R. Seago wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:58, Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> wrote:
I'm not clear; did your local computer repair people do something that meant your computer was functional by 12:00, or did it just magically come back?
It magically came back, the local repair shop had spent all morning telling everyone who had rung him that that was what would happen, he got to me, In response to my answer-phone message at about 12.30. I'd tried pushing the button once more after coming back from the post office, and whoopee it worked.
For future reference, many of the better ATX Power Supplies will go into a cutout mode in certain supply and output overload circumstances. It sounds like that is what happened here. Usually the reset procedure is to disconnect and then reconnect the mains supply (pressing the power button on the front doesn't come anything like close to this since we went from AT type supplies to ATX) I wasn't aware of the time reset thing and personally I think it more likely that a final powercut (perhaps whilst you were going to the postoffice) did the reset procedure for you.
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