On Thursday 06 March 2003 08:34 pm, Roger Sherman wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chris wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2003 07:32 pm, Dennis Myers decided to hunt and peck
> > on the
> >
> > keyboard and typed:
> > > On Friday 07 March 2003 05:24 pm, Chris wrote:
> > > > Ok, let me try with a different subject, may just "reboot" didn't
> > > > catch anyones eye.  I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had
> > > > apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago.  I can't find any
> > > > reason for this at all. I've checked the logs.  This also happened
> > > > yesterday.  Can anyone
> > >
> > > I have had this happen a couple of times and it turned out to be a
> > > momentary power hit on our home line. Squirrels committing suicide on
> > > the transformers interupt power for a couple of miliseconds and bingo
> > > the comp reboots. UPS solved the problem.
> >
> > Could be your right Dennis, hadn't thought about that, it is real close
> > to spring here in Tx. Not enough of a 'hit' to mess up the clocks are
> > anything else.  I'll have to check into a ups.  Thanks
>
> Heh...I have a UPS, and my PC still does that once in a while...
Yeah, I think if the hit is less time than the 3nanosec response of the UPS 
then the comp still reboots but UPS doesn't have time to kick in. That too 
has happened here. Somewhere in my neighborhood there should be a pole with 
about 2ft of squirrel parts and pieces laying by it. 
-- 
Dennis M. linux user #180842

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