From: Skybuck Flying on

"Pieyed Piper" <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
message news:t0kar5pfb12b1qpcu5okeqosbf6srk4h67(a)4ax.com...
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 00:33:14 +0200, "Skybuck Flying"
> <IntoTheFuture(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>The situation has become even more absurd:
>>
>>"Now during boot I am required to press reset twice" otherwise the cpu fan
>>would still stop after the first reset.
>>
>>It's almost as if there is a counter which says: "now you must reset
>>twice"
>>?!?
>>
>>Bye,
>> Skybuck.
>>
> You shouldn't use the reset button to restart your machine, idiot.

And why would that be ? ;)

> You should ALWAYS power down with the POWER switch. Even if it takes
> holding it for four seconds. You should always power up from it as well,
> or a keyboard power switch or other trigger.

Sounds like bad advice to me...

And in this case it wouldn't even work since the fan would just stop again !
;)

>
> The reset switch is only for a hung machine.
>
> You are the cause of every problem you ever had with every computer you
> ever owned.

Sure thing dude, blame it all on Skybuck ! LOL.

Bye,
Skybuck.


From: Mike Tomlinson on
In article <oFvqn.581272$5n1.473795(a)newsfe01.ams2>, SteveH <steve.houghR
EMOVE(a)THISblueyonder.co.uk> writes

>And more to the point, theres so many idiots on these groups lately, i'm not
>sure I'd be advising people to strips fans anymore than I would tell them to
>take PSU's apart.

*nods*

--
Mike Tomlinson