[ale] PC Power Problems

[Jhubbs at niit.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

I 
assume that you are turning the machines off during the 
night.
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Try 
this (you can try this on just one machine):
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size=2>1.?? Turn the machines off in the usual manner.
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size=2>2.?? Disconnect the power cords from the machines for a little while 
(I assume that the power cord is live at this point, still 
attached).
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size=2>3.?? Plug the machines' power cords back in.?? 

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Do the 
machines boot??? If so, then it's likely that your UPS is not entirely U 
after all.
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If the 
machines don't boot when you try this experiment (my new machine will power on 
for maybe one sec and then go into "soft-off" - don't ask me what the opposite 
is!) then try letting them sit off overnight with their Ethernet cables 
disconnected.?? If the problem goes away, then maybe Wake-On-LAN isn't as 
disabled as you'd think.
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- 
Jeff
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Michael Curtis 
  [mailto:michael at servicecpa.com]Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 9:32 
  AMTo: ALESubject: [ale] PC Power 
  Problems
  I have 3 pcs that are all on 600VA UPS.?? Now the 
  problem, they seem to turn themselfs on in the middle of the night.?? I 
  have Wake on lan turned off.?? Two of them are Linux and one is Windows 
  98.?? Does anybody have any ideas as to what this could be?
  ??
  Thanks,
  Michael