TSGL: Start-button problem

[H Davis]

Don,

It knows that the gov't has taken all the guns away from you folks down 
there in Australia and you have no way of effectively intimidating it 
any more.

H Davis

Don Penlington wrote:
> <snip>
>   Modern switches are funny things, they often have multi functions. On 
> mine, you have to hold it in for 8 seconds before it will fully switch off. 
> Occasionally it won't do anything at all, and I have to pull the plug (not 
> a good thing).  Then, after reconnecting, I sometimes find that pressing 
> the power switch doesn't do anything. Zero. Zilch. Same thing happens if I 
> go away on holiday and leave it unplugged. I plug it in, and the power 
> switch is dead.
>
> If that happens, I then unplug the power again, leave it unplugged for 30 
> seconds, replug it in, don't touch anything but go away for 10 minutes, 
> come back and then I can press the power button and the machine boots just 
> like normal. Sits there grinning away at me like I was a fool. (Well, maybe 
> I am and it knows that!).
>   
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