Power Outages

Does fios monitor power outages?

bimazana wrote:
Does fios monitor power outages?
Could you be more specific?
Do you mean power outages at the CO? Of course.
If you mean power outages at your home, then the answer is "It depends".
The BBU does report loss of AC power to the ONT.
The ONT maintains an event log than can be retrieved by network techs.
If the power outage exceeds the run time of the BBU, the ONT will reboot and clear the logs when power comes back on.

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Cannot login to my usual account after power outage

Had two power outages last night; machine survived the first one, but after the second outage and restoration I cannot get in to my usual user account. What happens:
Grey apple screen, normal
Blue screen with progress bar indicating that OS X is loading... before the indicator fills all the way to the right, it exits to a blue screen [of death] with a mouse cursor (which works) and just stays there. It goes no further. Rebooting obviously does not fix it; I rebooted a dozen times trying to get beyond that.
What I've tried that hasn't fixed it:
Rebooting
Unplugging and replugging, both computer side and wall
Repairing both the disk and permissions--done, no effect
Safe booting and attempting to log into the account under a safe boot--it loads the wallpaper and hangs right there, no dock, no menu loaded
Removing the User/~ Preferences folder
I believe that what is causing the problem is some login startup item. However, since I cannot even log in in Safe mode, I can't start the System Preferences Accounts panel to remove login items.
Question: Is there another way to remove the login startup items? Removing the Preferences folder has not helped. I'm missing something. What is it?
I can log in to any other user account. I am currently in Root.

From the root account, open the Accounts pane of System Preferences and delete the login items for your normal account; an admin account should be able to do this for any account on the system, while non-admin accounts can only be used to change their own login items.
If removing the login items does not fix the issue, remove other parts of the home folder until you are able to log in to that account. If you've removed/renamed the entire home folder and aren't able to log in successfully, check that the permissions on the hard disk allow all accounts to read it; if you still can't successfully log in to that account, restore a previous version of the NetInfo database.
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What can happen to an intel-based iMac when a power outage occurs while it is on and I unplug it to avoid a surge when power comes back?

The power went out today, while I was using my intel-based iMac (2008) and I rushed to unplug the power from the wall, before the poser could surge back on. Did I do damage?
I have a surge protector that it was plugged into, but I thought just to be safe I should unplug!
Thanks, Group!
artdough

Good point!
Art a surge protector (a good one) is designed to provide contant power to the devices that are plugged into it. This is good in the event of a surge of power up or down however in the event of a complete power outage they're of no value.
A UPS (Uninteruptable Power Supply) is just that, it has surge protection like a surge suppresor however it also has a battery integrated into it. The battery is designed to provide enough power for a user to do an orderly shutdown. In addition most UPS's can also plug into your iMac via a USB cable. Then you can set energy saver preferences that you cannot see now. For example you can set how long the computer should run in the event of power going off. You can also set if you want the computer to reboot or not when the power comes back on etc. For about $100 you can get a fine UPS that will add an additional layer of protection for your computer and give you extra peace of mind.

Power Supply blows a fuse, Ext Soundcard power outages, Time Machine.

Power Supply blows a fuse, Ext Soundcard momentary power outages. Time Machine won't backup.
Ok here's my setup
Mac Book Pro 13" APRIL 2011 latest firmware. 8GB RAM. Surge Protected mains connection..
M-AUDIO FIREWIRE SOUNDCARD AUDIOPHILE most recent drivers and powered by the MacBooks Firewire Out using a NEET Pro Lead,
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Unable to load OS bound to a domain after power-outage

I currently manage 200 2013 iMac but since installing Yosemite I've noticed that after the macs are joined to the domain and a network user is using the machine and a power outage occurs ALL iMac running Yosemite will not boot up. The boot process reaches about 30 percent and stays on the grey apple logo screen. After extensive troubleshooting we found that this only occurs when a user is logged in when the power outage occurs. However if the power outage occurs and the units are not being used by a network user the computer boots up fine. We completed a fresh install created a local user without adding it to the domain. We then logged in with the local user mimic'd a power-outage and the computer booted up fine. I have done extensive troubleshooting noticed that the issue does not occur with local users only users authenticated on a domain.
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Insert the Mac OS X 10.4 installation disk into the drive, and then restart the computer with the Option key held down. If you are able to successfully start up from the drive, install Mac OS X 10.4.
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GTX 680 - No longer recognized after power outage, fans on 100%

As the title says, we had a power outage (not a surge, no breakers were tripped, and surge protector didn't trip either) that lasted about 10 seconds. When I rebooted, my card was no longer recognized, and the fans are spinning at full speed.
Hopefully there's a fix, as I can't RMA the card any longer (newegg 30 day limit passed, and I can't fork up another $500 for a replacement)
The card isn't being recognized in my BIOS (and not with any other tool on windows/nix either). It's only drawing about 0.15v according to the BIOS, so I think maybe it's burned out.
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Quote from: Svet on 17-January-13, 16:58:38
try in another PCI-E slot then, else find a way to test it in another computer
Tested it in all 3 PCI-e slots. I'll have to figure out a way to rebuild another rig I guess.
Edit; no way possible to run it in another rig. I don't have the CPU for the old 775 socket board.
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865PE Neo2-PFISR problems after power outage

I need some help with a problem. A recent power outage while my supposedly "surge protected" 865PE Neo2 based machine was running, apparently messed something up. After our power came back on, I powered it back up and discovered that I now have 4 ongoing problems. Problem 1) it now hangs twice during the boot process, once at "auto detect 3rd master - press escape to abort", which if I then press ESC, it then moves to "auto detect 3rd slave - press escape to abort" and hangs there until I press ESC, at which time it then finishes booting like normal. (by the way, I don't even have any 3rd master or 3rd slave installed) Problem 2) I can no longer enter the Bios setup, even though I press the DEL key at the appropriate time. Problem 3) The case light for hard drive activity stays on constantly, even though the drive seems to be working normally without any other problems. Problem 4) A few issues here. My sata dvd/cd combo drive is no longer recognized as being installed; the activity light on the drive is constantly on even though the drive is not running; the drive bay will no longer open.
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Problem Update.
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After a series of very short power outages in my town our Imac boots with the pinwheel going and a progress bar, then the users screen comes up but our passwords no longer opens up desktops, just returns to the users choice screen. What should I do?

I'm on the choose a user screen and when I enter the password the screen goes white then returns to choosing a user. The system is rebooting differently when I tried turning off then back on, the pinwheel screen has a progress bar and it takes minutes instead of seconds.
what should I try?

You can try an SMC reset, especially if there was a power outage.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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Mac Mini wont start after power outage, and problem copying iPhoto library. HELP!

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OK, we need more info about your Mac. Do you know how much RAM it has in it?
If you don't know the model, find the Serial# & use it on one of these sites, but don't post the Serial# here...
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php
How to find the serial number of your Apple hardware product...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1349

My screen saver is not working on my desktop after a power outage. It is set for 15 minutes but does not come on.

I had a power outage. when the power came back, my screen saver does not come on after the set 15 min. Every thing seems fine. How do I get it to start working again?

safeboot
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Can not start web server after power outage

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I have a Cisco NSS322 running firmware v1.0.0. I have Web server with MySQL, file sharing on the box. after a power outage this morning, I could not access the web server anymore. I can access filesharing and web GUI management interface (port 8080). I login to the box via ssh, and do netstat -na, and found that the box does not listen on port 80.
From Web GUI, I tick/untick the "Enable Web Server" number of time but can not turn on the services. The logs say re-lauch apache sucessfully.
Could someone help please?
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Time Machine won't recognize my last backup after a power outage

Good Afternoon Everyone,
I just set up a Western Digital My Book Live on my network. Last week, I set up Time Machine to start a backup on my MacBook Pro (running 10.7.5). It took 2 days to finish, but all went well. For three days, all the backups worked perfectly. However, we had a power outage for an hour during the night and now that I turn on my MacBook Pro, Time Machine recognizes the disk, but doesn't have a record of any backup.
I have gone to the drive manually and seen that the files are still there, but how to I tell Time Maching on my MacBook that the full backup is already on that NAS drive, so that it won't do a full backup?
I would really appreciate the help.
Brett

TM apparently identifies the machine's backup by the Computer Name stored in the Sharing preferences. Try opening Sharing preferences and changing the Computer Name to the one you used previously when your TM backup was created.
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I experienced a power outage while performing an update to Photoshop via Creative Cloud on my iMac. Since then I have been unable to use or re-install the app. Initially when trying to re-install, Adobe Application Manager would run through most of the install process and then error out towards the end, stating that the download was corrupt. This happened twice, and now after several reboots I no longer have the option to un-install on the Adobe sub-menu. Other Adobe apps seem to function without issue.

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Can somebody help?
We had 3 power outages in quick succession and now my imac will not let me log in, it just comes back to the log in screen.

Hello,
What OSX version?
If 10.7.0 or later...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

HP w2207 Monitor - "No Video Signal" After Power Outage

My mother has a Mac Mini - 2009 model - that I bought her. It is connected to an HP w2207 monitor I used to have with a mini-display port to DVI [I think, either that or VGA] adaptor. She lives 2 1/2 hours away.
Last week there was a power outage and ever since she cannot get her system to work. Her monitor says "No Video Signal" and then goes to sleep.
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See if the Mini will boot from the install disk. If it does, have your mom use Disk Utility to repair her internal hard drive. Repeat running repair until Disk Utility gives the disk a clean bill of health. Then repair permissions.
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