Power cut

[unixman_again]

We had one last night and everything was a bit slow this morning, with PCs taking about 10 minutes to logon, sitting at a black screen (although for some reason my screen was blue - I'm special!). The PCs did eventually wake up and then if you immediately rebooted, normal service was resumed.

 

In comes one of the staff, complaining how things were slow - she said that she would have raised a ticket but couldn't logon with. I explained the above to her. About 20 minutes later she comes back angry saying that her PC had been at the black screen for 30 minutes and she was still waiting. The others in her office were all logged on. I goes to her office with her and looks at her PC. It was very difficult not to piss myself laughing when I saw that her PC wasn't switched on.

[twin--turbo]

I hope you told her that you needed to use a special "DigitusExtendus, Linear Actuation, Procedure" to fix it.

[DJ-1701]

That is the problem with Wake On LAN... so many people think these machines magically turn on for them.