Calling ALL experts, hardware, software, telephaty.... whatever.

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Today, Anno Domini 2004, in the month of September, on the eighth day of
the month I switched on my trusty box with
Slack OS, as is my habit every morning for "donkey's years".
Was properly greeted by lilo screen, so I pushed the <CR> button, as
prescribed by tradition, to give me my default OS,
Slackware Linux, of course.
On the "boot:" prompt a letter "a" materialised and the whole caboodle
stopped.
After few moments I pushed "reset" and the process repeated.
Then I noticed that the "caps lock" led is on and does not respond to
repeated poking of the "caps lock" button.
OK, power off, wait few seconds, power on and supprise, the box boots,
"caps lock" is off, "num lock" is on, as it should be
and everything is normal again.
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And who said that computers aren't hilarious?

Your guess?

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

Stanislaw Flatto wrote :

> And who said that computers aren't hilarious?
>
It could be one of those pesky computer-goblins who paid you a visit.

> Your guess?

Something hardware related. Maybe a dust short circuit, a corroded
connector or a minor hard-drive problem.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 05:21 pm, Stanislaw Flatto did deign to grace
us with the following:

> Calling ALL experts, hardware, software, telephaty.... whatever.
>
> [subject]
> Today, Anno Domini 2004, in the month of September, on the eighth day of
> the month I switched on my trusty box with
> Slack OS, as is my habit every morning for "donkey's years".
> Was properly greeted by lilo screen, so I pushed the <CR> button, as
> prescribed by tradition, to give me my default OS,
> Slackware Linux, of course.
> On the "boot:" prompt a letter "a" materialised and the whole caboodle
> stopped.
> After few moments I pushed "reset" and the process repeated.
> Then I noticed that the "caps lock" led is on and does not respond to
> repeated poking of the "caps lock" button.
> OK, power off, wait few seconds, power on and supprise, the box boots,
> "caps lock" is off, "num lock" is on, as it should be
> and everything is normal again.
> [/subject]
>
> And who said that computers aren't hilarious?
>
> Your guess?

Energy Surge, of course. ;-)

Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
> And who said that computers aren't hilarious?

> Your guess?

Got any four legged pets around the house? When I was younger and living
at home, my dad used to have a young cat that slept on the keyboard, which
led to all sorts of fun when a key stuck (Dad is not exactly the best
about cleaning soda spills out of the keyboard) after the cat got up.
Let's not even get into the fun the cat caused when she tried to get on
the keyboard while someone was using it, heh. Now usually the stuck key
would be a random innoculous key and just lead to a long series of beeps
when the keyboard buffer got filled up. However, every now and again it
would be a key with a little more consequence, causing all sorts of
interesting bootup effects. I suppose my dad probably still experiences
these problems as he still has the keyboard on the desk instead of in a
keyboard tray and that cat is still around, although now rather elderly.

Cichlidiot wrote:

>Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
>
>
>>And who said that computers aren't hilarious?
>>
>>
>
>
>
>>Your guess?
>>
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>
>Got any four legged pets around the house?
>

A German shepherd and a Golden retriever, you should see how nicely,
even Windows98 behaves, when the shepherd
sits by keyboard.

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.