URg! Daughter woke us at 4 AM in tears. Her computer was making a loud, strange noise and wouldn’t shut off. Getting up, all the clocks were flashing and my computer had rebooted. Got up to her room and her machine (G5 Tower) was running all fans on high, ready for take off. She’d tried shutting down but didn’t know the trick of holding power button in for 10 secs. Explained that the storm blowing around us (lightning and blowing rain) had caused the power flicker and that had confused the computer. Once she was able to associate the storm with the computer messed up, she was able to empathize with it and told it it would be ok. She then to bed and right to sleep. Wish I could go back to sleep like that.
I am going to spend an awful long time staring at this tonight.