Our two main work computers both spontaneously rebooted at the same time today. It was eerie.
The machines are nearly identical. Both have Asus A7V motherboards, with slightly different revisions. Aside from one having 512MB of RAM and the other 256MB of RAM, and one having a CD writer while other has just a plain CD drive, that's about it for differences.
Both run Windows 2000, are behind a router, have the latest OS patches and updates, have updated antivirus software and Spybot software...
I hadn't installed any new software recently. I wondered about a power surge, however a old Dell box running Fedora Core 2 was not affected.
I searched Google, and there are many reports of W2K boxes spontaneously rebooting for a variety of apparent reasons.
This is the first time it's happened to us in the nearly four years we've had these machines. And why both at the same time?
I just hope it doesn't happen again, as I was in the middle of editing an article for a client. Fortunately only a few changes were lost.
Posted by Paul at July 16, 2004 06:19 PM