[thechat] Help: Auto-Restart>Attempt Again>Failed>Shut Down

[Martin Burns]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:

> From: "William Anderson"
> > > As power supply never goes bad here [snip]
> >
> > So you're saying that power supplies don't fail round your way from regular
> > things such as problem at manufacturing, accruement of dust, failure of
> > parts due to wear and tear, etc.
>
> In fact, I am a regular user of PC since 2000 AD. In all these years I have not
> encountered even a single problem of power supply (fluctuation). It fails only
> when heavy storms take place. As I can predict such failure at beginning moments
> of storm, therefore, I mostly shut down my PC as a safety precaution.

<lightbulb moment>
Ahhhhh! You mean 'the supply of power to you from the electricity
company', not 'the hardware in your PC which does voltage conversion &
regulation', which is what I think William meant.

Cheers
Martin
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