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Well this is typical dailywtf - while amusing most of the stories are massaged to be more entertaining to such a degree it become unrealistic. While Windows XP

Well this is typical dailywtf - while amusing most of the stories are massaged to be more entertaining to such a degree it become unrealistic. While Windows XP will offer to to do a repair when it gets shutdown suddenly normally doing that won't cause filesystem corruption or even HARDWARE damage as is implied in the story. My guess from the description is that the generator power is probably dirty - the right fix would have been an online UPS here with an app that shuts the machine down on power loss. A second factor might be that the PC was set to start automatically when Power was applied and while booting up it gets turned off again several times I think a Windows XP (and windows 7) machine will then ask for user interaction. You can turn this Function off tho and Windows will ignore power loss after that.

thatwebdude 9y ago
> the right fix would have been an online UPS here with an app that shuts the machine down on power loss. That's my thought. I've done enough end-user work to know I really should try to avoid all possible issues relating the user, assuming my work allows a timeline to do so.
dmckeon 9y ago
> A second factor might be that the PC was set to start automatically when Power was applied and while booting up it gets turned off again several times ... Small generator manuals often suggest that the generator motor be warmed up and running smoothly before an electrical load is applied. Possible scenario: generator motor is hard to start, or awkward to choke/unchoke, "starting" involves 2 or 3 rounds of: start generator, motor runs rough, choke setting is fumbled, generator stalls, PC halts before boot completes, lather, rinse, repeat.