Something New in Win2K!
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I discovered something new in Win2K Server last night. When I got home from a darts match late I jumped on the system (to see what's been happening at CP, of course) and, as usual, found a dark screen. This time, though, it wouldn't wake up. Keystrokes and mouse activity were uniformly ignored! Fortunately, restarting didn't damage anything, but it easily could have. The screen was in sleep mode, and I couldn't hear any disk activity, so I felt there was little risk of loss, but pushing the reset button was still spooky. Has anyone else heard of this being a problem in Win2K? As a side-note, when I restarted I disabled BIOS power management just to ensure there would be no conflict with WIndows, but that put it into a continuous reboot loop. Re-enabling BIOS power management allowed it to restart normally.
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I discovered something new in Win2K Server last night. When I got home from a darts match late I jumped on the system (to see what's been happening at CP, of course) and, as usual, found a dark screen. This time, though, it wouldn't wake up. Keystrokes and mouse activity were uniformly ignored! Fortunately, restarting didn't damage anything, but it easily could have. The screen was in sleep mode, and I couldn't hear any disk activity, so I felt there was little risk of loss, but pushing the reset button was still spooky. Has anyone else heard of this being a problem in Win2K? As a side-note, when I restarted I disabled BIOS power management just to ensure there would be no conflict with WIndows, but that put it into a continuous reboot loop. Re-enabling BIOS power management allowed it to restart normally.
I have had similar problems on XP Home once in a while. -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179
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I discovered something new in Win2K Server last night. When I got home from a darts match late I jumped on the system (to see what's been happening at CP, of course) and, as usual, found a dark screen. This time, though, it wouldn't wake up. Keystrokes and mouse activity were uniformly ignored! Fortunately, restarting didn't damage anything, but it easily could have. The screen was in sleep mode, and I couldn't hear any disk activity, so I felt there was little risk of loss, but pushing the reset button was still spooky. Has anyone else heard of this being a problem in Win2K? As a side-note, when I restarted I disabled BIOS power management just to ensure there would be no conflict with WIndows, but that put it into a continuous reboot loop. Re-enabling BIOS power management allowed it to restart normally.