[AccessD] Can anyone help me with this

[John Colby]

Well as you can see I really don't have a clue why it is happening.  I 
was under the impression that such hardware kind of shutdowns informed 
the OS which then initiated the shutdown.  Mine does not shutdown, it 
simply reboots.


On 10/15/2017 12:03 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> John,
>
> Is it possible that the behaviour occurs at the hardware level, rather than
> the OS or SQL Server? I'm thinking of Energy Conservation settings. I have
> a tower I have that randomly shuts off and just as randomly turns back on.
> If I intrude, i.e. press the power button while the machine is in "shut
> off" mode, then it comes back to life much more quickly than after a cold
> boot, and it returns to precisely where I left it. It also seems, although
> I haven't verified this, that if I run gmail on that machine (since I get a
> lot of email), that seems to preserve the connection and prevent the
> shutdown.
>
> Arthur
> ​

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John W. Colby