Power Cycle

What is Power Cycle?


1.

Standard diagnostic technique. Involves removing power from a printer/workstation/server and reapplying it. This will usually clear most error conditions and allow one to resume normal operations. Also known as 'Buttoning it'

Customer: My computer froze when I started explorer...

Helpdesk: Did you try power cycling it?

Customer: Whuh?

Helpdesk: Turn it off, then back on

Customer: But I'll lose all my work!

Helpdesk: No splurgh...

2.

To watch an entire season of a television show in a short amount of time.

I was sick, so I decided to power cycle through season 2 of 'Family Guy'.

See dvd, tv, television, watch


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