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so im sitting here in my room, watching some TV (lupin is on ).....and my main system just shuts down and reboots (its NOT a heat issue, PSU, board, CPU temps are all around 35c all night)

so im like....What the fuck was that?

So i sit back down after the main system returns to normal

about 30 seconds later.....my server/second rig reboots on its own (this is only running as my webserver with FAH, nothing else is loaded on this rig)

Now....both of these rigs are plugged into a different outlet

Then I look outside when the second rig is back to normal....and the fucking streetlights go out one by one....(looked a LOT like when you first meet the skaarj in Unreal)
then they all go back on at once....

And that was it.....everything else plugged into the outlets same as the computers (alarm clock, radio, TV) didnt do ANYTHING

it was just the computers and the streetlights


now I am trying to explain this, otherwise I will be thinking about it for the next week

Too much novocaine? ...........................j/k ing

reference THIS THREAD for those that dont get it.

actually...i dont find that funny

I bet timmy does...

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sorry, I'm an ass.

Check the clocks in your house to see if they have all lost time, you were most likely abducted by aliens and had a good anal probing.

lol... guys he is asking a question.. and u just sit here and make jokes?

i know what u mean talent..


today i woke up all comps where fine and on. nomal.

i go out side for 1 houre both comps are restated i was like wtf this happens every few weeks

probably a brownout.

We get them alot when alot of people are running the AC and the power company can't supply power fast enough. My parents get them all the time out in Arlington Heights, they even had a thing where liek they wanted you to run your AC at a higher setting during the day so it wouldn't come on as often and cause such a draw on the power grid. I guess their thinking was that hey, you're not home during the day (probably at work/school whatever) so why have the AC blasting at 70? hehe

Originally posted by WiseÄss
probably a brownout.

We get them alot when alot of people are running the AC and the power company can't supply power fast enough. My parents get them all the time out in Arlington Heights, they even had a thing where liek they wanted you to run your AC at a higher setting during the day so it wouldn't come on as often and cause such a draw on the power grid. I guess their thinking was that hey, you're not home during the day (probably at work/school whatever) so why have the AC blasting at 70? hehe

That is called load managment. I am a network administrator at the power company I work at and my division handles the sales of energy (think Enron) and load management where we control peoples waterheaters, AC, etc. etc.

Yes it was most likely a brown out.

A_T , I have a window a/c in my comp room window. The compressor tried starting and the high amp draw would make my main comp reboot. I thought someone had rebooted it trying to get passed the screensaver password.

i understand with everyone saying about brown outs and such.....

but when you dont have many things running (and the comps are in different outlets on different parts of the room, but on the same fuse)

not to mention the electrical in my room is seperate from the other rooms in the house (i repulled it so it would be that way)

it just struck me as wierd that the comps rebooted for no reason.....and not at the same time

yea... but that doesent explain the lights going off in sequence. if it was a brown out they would all go out at the same time no? id have to say.... um, EMP!

It was an alien ship probing the area looking for inteligent life. As they probed each device it went off, then back on when they were done probing. Luckily they did not find any enteligent life on earth and now went back home!

I have seen street lights go out various times, one here and one there like that, but not actually in order. Think it has to do with the sensitivity of the circuits in the lights, they have the light sensor eyes and electronics to turn them on and off. I think those circuits can be effected alot by the power conditions as well as daylight.

As for going off in a straight line as apposed to randomly? Who knows? Maybe it had to do with a brown out and the houses in between the lights? Like full power to the begining of the row, and a loss by the time it got to the last one. Then as power weakend you get less than full power to the second, then less to the 3rd and so forth. So like as the power dropped little by little the ones furthest from the source got the lower power first and went off first, where as closer to the source still had enough to stay on. And as power was lowered more and more more lights went off.

As far as the computers, ya if they are on the same fuse it's wierd they did not go off at the same time.
Even if one was more likely to go off with a brown out than the other, they should both go off when the second one did.

Power loss is a normal part of my life! We just had it flashing on and off and up and down again today!
About time to go battery and inverters to the whole house and just use the power company for charging batteries and running the well and an aircompresser if I get a new 5hp I want.

So you don't have your systems on a UPS? I even have to have my tv, dvd, and vcr one one!

when i get a house... im gonna mod it to run compleatly on 12V... then out back ill have a small little 4 cylender diesle that will drive several car alternators to power the house in the event of an outage... and if that fails i can even hook it to my car or somthing... then just order one of then 400 pound center tap transformers to take all the 220 and turn it into 24V and use that for charging.

An all DC house like 12v, 24v or 48v is not all that great. To many items cost far too much money for DC.
Like a Fridge, freezer, washer, dryer ect.... All cost so much and so little to choose from you need to go to an inverter anyway. Also most Pc power supplies are either 120 or 240 AC. Course I geuss you could do like me and take old UPSs and mod then to run off the DC bank all the time for the PCs.

I'm only doing that with one though, and that's so I can run a real pc from my vehicles directly.

I do like the idea of 12v lights fans ect...