There was a big storm last night. The weather people had been saying for some time that we needed rain badly, so I wasn’t complaining. Plus, I kind of like the sound of rain on the roof.
I’ve been remarkably lucky all my life to have suffered very little damage to electrical equipment as the result of power surges and the like. As a result, I’m sorry to say, I’m a little lackadaisical about going around and unplugging stuff like you’re supposed to. The PC and it’s related equipment are on surge protectors, as are all the TVs and VCRs in the house.
Anyway, after the worst of things had passed (and after half a dozen or so power failures of a second or two each), I tried to boot up the PC. No luck. Power switch. No little light. Power switch … power switch … no little light. Looked at the surge protector, it’s little light was on. The monitor was on. The cable modem was on. Power switch … no little light.
So I went to bed, wondering how I might possibly squeeze a new power supply, or worse a motherboard, or worst a whole PC, out of the already too-tight-for-groceries budget.
This morning, I got up, took the dog out, walked around the yard trying to see if there was any damage, came inside and read the paper, came upstairs, and said a little prayer, despite the fact that The Lord and I don’t see eye-to-eye lately.
Then I did exactly two things: (1) I reseated the power cord at the PC end, and (2) I moved the surge-protector end of the power cord to a different outlet on the same surge protector.
Power switch … here I am.
How?