My home desktop has suddenly started turning itself off and on.
Any theories?
This is going to cost me a lot of money, isn't it?
My home desktop has suddenly started turning itself off and on.
Any theories?
This is going to cost me a lot of money, isn't it?
Interesting. Both my husband and I have a problem with our Mac laptops: we choose "shut down" and the damn things restart instead. The first few times this happened, I thought I had selected "restart" instead of "shut down", since they are next to each other on the menu. But now I am very careful to choose the correct one, and it STILL happens quite often.
I think the computers are just flexing their muscles in preparation for taking over the universe. I hope they let us live.
Last edited by Hatshepsut; 20 Oct 2011 at 07:12 PM.
There's only one possible explanation: demon possession.
Better set it on fire, just to be sure.
Last time I saw this the power cable was loosely in. A nudge on the cable or the PC and off it went. When I moved in reaction to it, it pushed the cable in just enough and turned on again.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Hmm...given the location of my PC, I don't think it can be getting nudged like that. Worth checking, though, thanks.
Just got this at work:
Whew.Hi Honey,
I am sending this email from the downstairs computer. [Computer dude] could come today. The computer's power source needed to be replaced, but everything else is okay. He also cleaned the inside of the computer.
Glad to hear its been resolved. I guess I wasn't that far off after all.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Sigh...
Now it's doingAny idea about this? Is it connected to what was happening before? (Would seem quite the coincidence if it isn't)USB Over Current Status Detected, Computer will shut down in 15 seconds !!!"
Thanks for any ideas.
Yeah, it sounds like your engineer is looking for more work.
Well not quite, but at a guess it will be related to the new power supply probably supplying more current than the USB devices are capable of having. It's not an error I have seen before, but "BY THE POWER OF GOOGLE", it appears that it is not uncommon.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Last edited by Rube E. Tewesday; 26 Oct 2011 at 08:05 AM.
Well, it turns out one of the USB ports was slightly damaged, and causing shorts. He disable the port, and things are OK now.
He didn't take any payment for fixing it, though, which makes me wonder if that wasn't the origin of the problem all along, and he'd missed it.
Anyway, touching wood, and thanks for your thoughts.