Because of prolonged thunder and lightning in area last night, I shut down PC
and disconnected phone line. This A.M. I boot up, and go to use the keyboard.
Not working, discover that it's taking a full second for keystroke to
register [Have to hold key down till letter, etc shows up on screen] A reboot
didn't seem to help. Went to Windows help screen and noticed when I typed in
"keys sticking" that everything seemed to be working, checked email, Word,
etc. Everything back to normal, anyone out there can give me a clue as to
what may have happened. Still don't know what [if anything] I did to correct
the problem. But would like to avoid the same problem in the future,
generally I leave the pc on except in severe thunder and lightning storms -
maybe I shouldn't shut down - just cut the phone line???

You disconnected the phone line but did you disconnect the power plug?


"xs1100h" <u29099@uwe> wrote in message news:69495cf99dfd9@uwe...
> Because of prolonged thunder and lightning in area last night, I shut down
> PC
> and disconnected phone line. This A.M. I boot up, and go to use the
> keyboard.
> Not working, discover that it's taking a full second for keystroke to
> register [Have to hold key down till letter, etc shows up on screen] A
> reboot
> didn't seem to help. Went to Windows help screen and noticed when I typed
> in
> "keys sticking" that everything seemed to be working, checked email, Word,
> etc. Everything back to normal, anyone out there can give me a clue as to
> what may have happened. Still don't know what [if anything] I did to
> correct
> the problem. But would like to avoid the same problem in the future,
> generally I leave the pc on except in severe thunder and lightning
> storms -
> maybe I shouldn't shut down - just cut the phone line???
>

You disconnected the phone line but did you disconnect the power plug?


"xs1100h" <u29099@uwe> wrote in message news:69495cf99dfd9@uwe...
> Because of prolonged thunder and lightning in area last night, I shut down
> PC
> and disconnected phone line. This A.M. I boot up, and go to use the
> keyboard.
> Not working, discover that it's taking a full second for keystroke to
> register [Have to hold key down till letter, etc shows up on screen] A
> reboot
> didn't seem to help. Went to Windows help screen and noticed when I typed
> in
> "keys sticking" that everything seemed to be working, checked email, Word,
> etc. Everything back to normal, anyone out there can give me a clue as to
> what may have happened. Still don't know what [if anything] I did to
> correct
> the problem. But would like to avoid the same problem in the future,
> generally I leave the pc on except in severe thunder and lightning
> storms -
> maybe I shouldn't shut down - just cut the phone line???
>

Reboots on systems with under 512K can take a long time. Could be that your
system was so busy setting up that it didn't respond to the keyboard

Reboots on systems with under 512K can take a long time. Could be that your
system was so busy setting up that it didn't respond to the keyboard

No I didn't Gary, didn't think it was necessary, power bar can handle voltage
spikes- well, at least that is what the mfgr says it will do.

Gary wrote:
>You disconnected the phone line but did you disconnect the power plug?
>
>> Because of prolonged thunder and lightning in area last night, I shut down
>> PC
>[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>> storms -
>> maybe I shouldn't shut down - just cut the phone line???

No I didn't Gary, didn't think it was necessary, power bar can handle voltage
spikes- well, at least that is what the mfgr says it will do.

Gary wrote:
>You disconnected the phone line but did you disconnect the power plug?
>
>> Because of prolonged thunder and lightning in area last night, I shut down
>> PC
>[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>> storms -
>> maybe I shouldn't shut down - just cut the phone line???

Interesting thought, I'm just a hair under 512K RAM on XP Pro S.P.2 and yes I
was expecting it to operate just after it displayed the desktop. Tried email,
and Word. Keys had to be held for 1 sec before letter apeared on screen.
Working okay now, do you think that was my problem? Not waiting long enough
for all systems to be brought up to "speed"?
Merg to the max wrote:
>Reboots on systems with under 512K can take a long time. Could be that your
>system was so busy setting up that it didn't respond to the keyboard

Interesting thought, I'm just a hair under 512K RAM on XP Pro S.P.2 and yes I
was expecting it to operate just after it displayed the desktop. Tried email,
and Word. Keys had to be held for 1 sec before letter apeared on screen.
Working okay now, do you think that was my problem? Not waiting long enough
for all systems to be brought up to "speed"?
Merg to the max wrote:
>Reboots on systems with under 512K can take a long time. Could be that your
>system was so busy setting up that it didn't respond to the keyboard