[kde-linux] Accident loses sound

[david]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:12, david wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Possible - this box and my server are on a shared UPS, so if it doesn't shut 
> down *completely* it would have access to power.

So it's possible that some trickle current is still keeping things alive 
on the motherboard. To clear it, try unplugging your box's power cord 
from the UPS for a few minutes. That's what it took with the problematic 
Dell machines.

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David
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