16 Mar
2004
16 Mar
'04
02:19
The Monday 2004-03-15 at 21:00 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Or probably simply "detected" at power up.
Well, if they were working fine prior to shut down but not after power up...?
Any (well, most) microprocessor systems do a self check right after power up, so that's the time when many failures are detected, if they don't crash before. Not many systems do (or can do) routine testing while running... but I know of one that worked perfectly till the test run at the early hours, to we poor techies chagrin. And, of course, electronics and electrical systems are stressed when powering up: take a simple bulb, they usually choose to blow up at that inconvenient time - with a good technical reason, of course :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson