On Thu, 2004-30-12 at 11:46 -0700, Kevin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 10:26, Bryce C wrote:
> > Sometime overnight, about 3:30am, a catastrophic event
> > befell my poor MythTV box. I don't know what exactly, but it seemed like
> > the power supply fried (judging by, for one, the fairly strong smell of
> > electrical smoke coming from it).
> 
> In the Gilbert area, we had a power outage overnight from ~03:40 until
> ~04:50 this morning.  I can't nail the times down exactly, but I was
> awakened by my beeping UPS at 03:40.  Unfortunately, it didn't have
> enough battery to last +1 hour.  ;-)  Looking through the logs this
> morning on a server that is not power protected, the last event I can
> pinpoint was at 03:30:01 (yes, it's time sync'd with ntpd from multiple
> stratum 2 sources).
> 
> After the battery gave up, I unplugged the power supplies on all the
> boxen and went back to bed.  I was groggy when the power came back, but
> it was around 04:50.  I was awakened again, but this time by the DVD &
> Stereo that someone left on last night.  The DVD restarted and the
> stereo was still at "theater volume" from the viewing last night :-).  I
> turned off the stereo and stumbled back to bed without restarting the
> any computers.  Thus, I don't have a good time on power return.  :-(
> 
> ...Kevin

No power outage was reported by my other UPSs and this system is on a
UPS itself. Never-the-less, the motherboard fried for no apparent reason
(see my other message).
Sorry to hear about the power-outage. I hope everything's okay and
nothing was lost.

Good to know, thanks,
Bryce