There could be several possibilities, some already listed here and more that could be thought up. It may not be important to worry about it, Paul. Assuming that you are doing regular backups and continue to run the computer 24/7, I would just let it be. My NT 4.0 server use to do this to me once in a while when it had been several months since shutting down, and I had let it go cold before booting up. My server is old stuff, so I am sure that it was waking up like I do every morning, feeling my age and creaking a bit here and there. :-) It would be more a concern if you now notice anything new happening, idiosyncrasies or problems, that weren't there before you shutdown. That's when I would definitely run tests on the hardware to make sure that the shutdown wasn't trying to tell you of impending doom.
That's how I would handle it, for now. T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I know this is off topic, but perhaps a hardware guru has a tip for me. Usually my PC is on and running 24/7. This weekend I switched it off (friday) because I went to London. This evening (Sunday) I switched it on again. Somewhere in POST, it switched off and a led started blinking as if it had gone into sleep-mode or something like that. After a restart, boot went into Mandrake boot and during load of postfix it switched off again. This repeated about 12 times, each time in a different place. Also, at least 4 times, the CMOS CPU speed setting was wrong (900 instead of 1200 Mhz). Very worrying was when the PC switched off during fsck-ing a partition. (Of course, partitions get bashed when the system powers down during boot.) The last boot (clearly) worked, although it took over half an hour to check all partitions (some EXT2, some EXT3). Who has a clue what could trigger this weird hardware behaviour? Thanks, Paul
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