Posted: 2/6/2004 12:56:10 PM EDT
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OK here is what happened. Had a momentary. This is tech speak for the power company cannot deliver uniterrupted power to me. I have surge protectors, etc. but momentaries still do funky things to my computer. It rebooted and didn't correctly set itself up. It didn't recognize my external hard drive. I've had this happen before where it didn't recognize my second CD drive and I had to fiddle with the connections and reboot. I did the same and it recognized the external drive and I was mostly home free. Problem was I wasn't here when it happened and it rebooted into SAFE MODE and changed a lot of my settings. Mostly like my screen dispays, etc. I checked properties and I'm at 82% which is normal and my RAM is all showing and it says I'm configed for optimal performance but it is really slow. I ran Norton and came up clean, ran Spybot and Adaware and came up clean but still slow after half a dozen reboots. Running 98 SE and nothing in the background that shouldn't be running. Any ideas? |
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Uninterruptible Power Supply Basically, it uses the AC power from the house to charge a battery. The batteries DC power is converted back to AC using an inverter. The AC is very stable. If the power goes out in your house, the battery in the UPS continues making clean AC. Depending on the size of the UPS, it will make power for 10-30 minutes. This is enough to power down the computer safely. If the power goes out while you are away from the PC, the UPS, through the serial port can send a signal to your computer to shut itself down. |
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Here's a fix. 1. reboot the computer and do the f8 thing to get the boot menu. 2. select: command prompt 3. type: cd windows 4. type: cd command 5. type scanreg /restore 6. select a backup copy of the registry that is a couple of days old 7. hit enter to restore that registry copy and enter once more to reboot. hopefully everything will be back to normal |