Dave, This is my first home, we moved in about 10 months ago and when this
occurred I found out the hard way that a couple of the labels inside do not
match what is controlled. The previous owner just installed a new breaker
box before my wife and I had the house inspected.

Spud, the one outlet that does work is a GFCI unit. I did press the reset
button when all this occurred.


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I am trying to diagnose a problem I am having in my basement. Here are
the
details

Recently I was repositioning my desk lamp when the bulb blew. As a
result
all of the ceiling lights and most of the wall outlets in the other room
no
longer work. I have tried resetting all of the breakers although none
of
them were tripped and I still cannot get those lights and outlets to
work.
So my current situation is in the computer room where the bulb blew,
only
one outlet works. The other does not. In the den area outside the
computer
room all ceiling lights do not work but one wall outlet does. I am
trying
to figure if it is possible another electrical box is covered somewhere
or
the electrical wiring really screwed up. This house about 50+ years
old.
Any suggestions on where I should start my search?

You say you were playing with a desk lamp and then suddenly you lost
power in one basement circuit but you can't find a tripped breaker?
First why don't you label all of your breakers so that from now on you
will know what they are? After doing that perhaps you will find one
breaker which does nothing. Perhaps it is bad.