Power cuts cause problems...

[Workingman]

It was getting towards midnight on Tuesday and I was downloading and installing some software from Canon for my camera when we had a series of mini power cuts - off...on.off.on.off...on.

When the power came back and was stabe I had none at the wall sockets as the trips had gone. That's how it should be, so I reset them. Then I had no power through the surge protector for all my computer stuff , so that got reset as well. Then came the problems..... The laptop kept cycling through booting up, the external keyboard and mouse would not work and the lappy keyboard had reconfigured itself to some sort of Cryllic Arabic hybrid.

It took the purchase of some gear, and a few tips from the guys at the local laptop repair centre, to get things working again. Oh, and a lot of screaming and hair pulling from me.

[Weka]

Oh no! UPS time?

[Workingman]

Bolted. Horse. Stable door. Close.

[meriad]

:lol:

Bolted. Horse. Stable door. Close.

at least your sense of humour didn't bolt with the horse!

[Workingman]

You weren't there when I was trying to work out the key combination to get into the BIOS..... talk about a nuclear sense of humour failure!!!

[JoM]

[Weka]

There's 1 time I stay well out of hubby's way, it's when he's fixing a broken computer (actually anything else for that matter ) It's not like he works in IT or anything.

(on a side note: missey proudly announced at dinner that computers don't talk to each other, whereby hubby told her what he does for a job. He's a network architect )