"Blanche Cohen" wrote

I just came back from a business trip and found my WinXP box dead.
As with every trip, I had shut everything down, disconnected the
power from the wall (actually, the UPS but that's another story).
Got home, reconnected everything, hit the power switch. Nothing.
Dead. I've already spent a couple hours diagnosing with no luck.

Check your onboard bios (or is it cmos) battery. The little
watch/calculator sized flat battery.

If you do this often (unplug it) and it is more than a couple years old, it
may have forgotten that it is _not_ a coffee maker.
--
Jim in NC