In reply to Technoslick's mail, d.d. Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:02:53 -0500: >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
Backups are holy on my computers :) >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. This machine is little over a year old and has not let me down since I got it (except for a busted fan in the power supply, which was fixed by a new power supply). The shut of the system went smooth as ever. As Anne said that she knows of more computers that do not want to start after a cold night, I will, for now, leave it at that. That my PC is just one of the tropically inclined ones *grin* (Thanks for that info, Anne!) Paul -- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Alva Edison http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.6 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today!
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