Basic functions have ceased to work properly after powercut

We had a brief powercut this morning, literally brief: it was less than a second. It was enough to turn off all our machines and since then my colleagues machine is acting in a weird manner.

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• t starts and opens LT2010 perfectly well but then selecting elements has no effect on the layer drop down. In properties it shows the element is one layer but the drop down shows another.
   
  
• Double clicks no longer start the edit commands.
   
  
• Pressing delete key doesn't erase anything.
   
  
• I have checked in the CUI and all the key commands double clicks appear as normal.
  

We asked IT to repair the install, which they have done but nothing has changed. I did ask about going back to the restore point but the IT guy mumbled something technical I didn't understand then walked off to do the install repair.

Has anyone expereinced anything like this or have any suggestions to fix it?

Have you tried loading an other profile?

note: don't forget to save your current profile

Is pickfirst equal to 1?

Thanks for the reply guys. IT just switched his machine for one of the new ones that are rolling out. Bit annoying as that one was supposed to be for me!

I did try creating a new profile and restarting CAD but that had no effect and I couldn't remember pickfirst when I was at his machine but I wanted to try it!

It's just because of your situation Glen that we have our network (15 computers and peripherals) conected to four UPS devices, we have the hardware split into logical zones for connection to a UPS. We experience quite a lot of power interuptions and the UPSs have proved to be worth their weight in gold over the years. They don't cost so much and compared with the cost of all your time and that of IT they have very quickly paid for themselves.

Perhaps its worth considering.

Personally I'm surprised we don't have them. We suffer one or two power cuts a year now we've moved out into the sticks from town centre. When we designed the office apparently a back up generator was recommended but may have been 'value engineered' out because we don't have one!

Trouble is common sense spending does seem to get forgotten in business even though everytime we get a powercut 80 odd people in the company can't carry on with any work.

Best Buy and some of the other electronic stores have small UPS units starting at around $50US. While these won't keep you working, they will prevent data loss and damage caused by power interuption. They will give you about 30 minutes, long enough to make your way back from the coffee pot to your desk and shut everything down. Yes, that don't sound like much to you and me, and yes your employers will blow a gasket over that sum. But if you spend 2 hours screwing around with trying to get a machine back online, then finally call the IT department and wait on them, they spend 2 more hours or simply replace the machine, how much did all that cost? Fifty bucks is cheap compared to all that. I live in a rural area, literally at the end of the line. I get all sorts of surges and spikes and outages, mostly due to the weather. Some of it just due to being at the end of the line and the electrical properties involved with that. I have suppressors and ups's on everything. I lost a computer to a voltage spike once that was caused by a traffic accident a half mile away. Car hit a power pole and knocked it down. It fell on another line, which caused the spike. It got one of my TV's too. This was several years ago, and the replacement cost just in hardware was nearly $1000. That would have bought a half a truck load of ups's and suppressors. Learned that lesson, haven't had a problem like that since. Do they make you bullet proof? No, nothing is perfect and a direct lightning strike could still get through, though it will slow it down. I came home one day and found one of my surge suppressors destroyed last summer. Changed it out, and everthing that was plugged into it still worked!

I agree with Jack on this one, i live in a rural area right on the split between 2 power grids and have similar issues. Last summer a tractor with a cultivator pulled down o\some power lines up the road and fried my HD. I went and got a UPS ($19.99 at a surplus store) and havent had issues since. We've had several sureges and accident etc since then and I have had no issues with aything plugged into it at all. The things are amazing.

It's probably worth asking for them now. They have just spent £800 (UK) on HP workstations which is an unheard of sum of money for a computer here! It would be a shame if a power surge blew it up and I had to go back to my dell word processor

Do the cheap UPS units just work for one computer?

It's probably worth asking for them now. They have just spent £800 (UK) on HP workstations which is an unheard of sum of money for a computer here! It would be a shame if a power surge blew it up and I had to go back to my dell word processor

 

Do the cheap UPS units just work for one computer?

I wouldn't try to run more than one off of one of them. They are good for about 400 watts, but they have others. Price goes up with size, of course.

The more money the longer the UPS will supply its basicly a battery in a box.

On a pc side a power spike can easily kill a computer so if your buying a UPs make sure it has spike protect as well. A blip in power is all it takes, sometimes you wont get a complete outage. On a personal note my TV video etc has a spike protector at home cheap insurance does it work ???.

I tel my staff if its obvious that a thunder lightning is hitting us save turn off and have a cup of coffee its cheap normally storms are gone by about 10 mins, time to have a staff meeting and we are lucky high up and watch the storm.

The ups at one company I worked at for the server was like 3 car batteries high and had cooling etc and would run for min 30 min's. Pc type maybe 5.