THEME: Computer repair

PLOT: Gremlins Attack PC's at night.

I awoke yesterday morning to find that the clock on the Coffee Maker was flashing 12:00 am, that indicated that power had been lost sometime during the night; I didn't think anything about it, it happens occasionally.

Later in the day, I went to a PC (Dual boot-XP and Vista) that I had left on (mistakenly) over night and, it was frozen on the Windows Splash screen. When I rebooted it, I received the message that a file (WINDOWS\System32\config\system) was missing or corrupted. After kicking the Alligators in the ass, I proceed with the normal Swamp-draining job of re-establishing both OS's.

Later that day, I decided to watch some TV that was stored on my PC-PVR (Pentium 4 @ 3.0Ghz with Beyond-TV) and, it was dead, wouldn't even power up. This machine runs 24-7 to record TV programs at it's convenience and, it's set to restart after a loss of power. The sags and surges of the restart was too much for the ATX power supply and it bit the dust. I pulled a power supply from the "Spares Box" and was soon back on the air - TV recording wise.

Climax and Resolution: "I came. I saw and, I conquered!"

Moral: Get back up power units for the computers that you love.

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