On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:34:20 -0800, "Ook" Ook Don't send me any
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Mystery solved. After spending HOURS AND HOURS remove every single miserable
switch and outlet in the house, examining all of the wires, and finding
nothing, I was seriously considering tearing the wall out to see where the
wire went. So, I walked outside to cool off because it was warm in the
house. I stood there, thinking, wondering what to do next. I turned around
and faced the house, looking up at the top of the wall where I knew the dead
wire dissappeared. I looked down...and there I saw, on the outside of the
house, directly underneath where I knew the wire vanished into the wall, an
outlet! Not only was it an outlet, but it was a GFCI that had tripped!

So, anyhow - the short of it is, someone had wired the circuit through this
GFCI on the outside of the house such that when the GFCI tripped, it shut
off the entire circuit. All of the outlets in the frontroom, and half the
outlets in the master bedroom came through that GFCI. Ten days of hell
because of this miserable GFCI on the outside of the house....


I'd be seriously thinking about connecting the rest of the circuit to
the line side of that gfi instead of the load side.