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|    mark lewis to Ed Vance    |
|    Hibernating XP Burps!    |
|    18 Aug 14 04:23:46    |
       On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:               EV> The LED on the USB cable went Off as I expected it to do.               EV> The only other thing I thought of when I was turning the box Off        EV> (Kibernating) was the USB cable gets its power from either the 12        EV> volt or the 5 volt supply, Maybe the other power supply still has        EV> some charge to it that is doing something while I turn the UPS Off.              yes, that is also a possibility... many usb hubs that i'm aware of do not use       diodes on the power lines so the power from the hub also flows back into the       computer... a friend's dell system had problems due to a usb hub like this...       we always had to unplug the usb hub before trying to turn the machine on or       reboot it for any reason... it was quite aggrivating...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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