X config damaged by power failure

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:21 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> It is supposed to be uninterpretable, but in practice, low end UPSs, 
> especially the ones sold for home or home offices, have a changeover 
> time when AC fails. It is only a cycle of so, but it is there. 

If your computer's internal power supply can't cope with losing just one
cycle of mains, that's a serious shortcoming it its design.  Switchmode
supplies should have better line regulation than that, the mains is far
from perfect and coping with that should be a part of standard design.

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(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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