[PLUG] spontaneous reboots

Kevin Cosgrove kevinc at doink.com
Mon May 24 14:13:02 UTC 2004


On 23 May 2004 at 14:08, "Barbara Pfieffer" <poor02 at bejay.com> wrote:

> I once ran a NT network in Chicago. WHen I looked at the logs, everyday 
> at 6am, the UPS kicked in for like 5 seconds. What I finally found out 
> was that at 6am, the local electric company switched from one type of 
> power plant to others and caused a really brief interruption. Decreased 
> the sensitivity on the UPS and it went away.

I'm not sure about present day, because I haven't tested the UPS, but 
in the past the house would take momentary power hits, to the point 
that the answering machine and microwave would complain.  But, the 
computer and UPS kept humming along fine.

Thx....





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