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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 8 Oct 2011 20:33:13
Message: <4e90ebc9$1@news.povray.org>

On 08/10/2011 10:44 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> Had a lab full of machines that the power went out in once (electricians
> doing a power upgrade).  We shut everything down properly, they did some
> work, we powered everything up, and then they started their actual work
> and threw the main breaker.
>
> Half the Windows machines wouldn't boot.  All the *nix and NetWare
> machines (and AS/400s et al) booted more or less without any issue at all.

Now I'm puzzled. Why the heck would that happen? Last time we had a 
power cut at work, all 50 desktop PCs booted back up just fine afterwards...

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