On 24/01/2019 22:32, polygonum_on_google wrote:


I suspect that whilst you felt that you had powered it down, it had actually gone to sleep. I keep finding people who think they restart their computers every night, or at least regularly, yet the last reboot date is weeks or months ago.

In Power Options you will likely find that using power button is set to send it to sleep. This applies both to the physical power button AND the on-screen power-off.


Not in this case. The PC was powered down. I usually, out of habit, let
it go to sleep overnight and only power down when nesessary. A habit
from when chips were in sockets and frequent power cycling tended to
make the chips walk out of the sockets.

Iain