[kde-linux] Accident loses sound

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Oct 25 19:12:24 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:38, david wrote:
>> I guess the moral of the story is that sometimes simply shutting down a
>> powered PC isn't enough to clear hardware problems?
> 
> When running windows I always found that if something got really screwed up it 
> was best to power down and wait at least 10 minutes before trying again.  All 
> the same, this box had been down overnight, so it should have been enough.  
> Ah well.....

Powered down, yes - also unplugged or no longer receiving AC power? The 
Dells that suffered the problem I mentioned easily retained their memory 
contents when shutdown overnight because the system was still receiving 
power from the mains.

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David
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