I plugged the power cord into a different outlet. Imagine my surprise and alarm when - nothing happened!! No matter how hard, how many times, or for how long I pressed the switch, it would not come on. ![]() ![]() It used to go off and not come back on after a power outage, but for several months now I've had it on a UPS battery so it should not have turned itself off even if the power had gone out (which it had not, in any event). Nobody other than me goes into the office, so I knew that no living being had shut it down. The next morning I went into my office and noticed that the computer was turned off. I installed the updates and left it on overnight, as usual. With an add-on graphics card, it serves mainly (and 24/7) as a participant in a distributed-computing (DC) project, but I've also used it to get a taste of both Linux and XP.Ī couple of days ago, the computer - at the time running on Vista - finished a stage in the DC project and I rebooted into XP to see what updates (Windows Defender, MS Office) there might be waiting for it. ![]() I'm running Windows XP Pro, Vista Business x86, and Netrunner 12.12 on it. One of my computers is a Hewlett-Packard dx7500 Microtower that I bought on clearance at an unbelievable price about three years ago.
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