Monday, 2 April 2007

KNOW the meaning of POWERCYCLE

Do you know the meaning of powercycle? If no don't worry i will explain it to you and i will also tell you how powerfull is the "POWERCYCLE" is. Generally, to power cycle a device means to turn it off and turn it back on again. Like, mostly in the user manual of a router/hub/modem may ask you to power cycle the router if it stops responding. This means switching the power to OFF and then ON again or may require physically unplugging the device and then plugging it back in again because some times static charge may get generated in the electronic devices that we use for a long time without turning it off and this might cause the problem of no response by that particular device.

As we all know, computer equipment can be rather difficult to handle at times. A device that was working fine ten minutes ago may begin acting strangely or may not be responding at all. Most of the times, simply turning off the device and turning it back on again will fix the problem. This is because information stored in the device's memory may get corrupted and causes the device to hang up or stick on a certain instruction. Power cycling the device erases the old data of device memory and allows it to boot up with fresh information. It would be more better if we wait atleast for 30 seconds before turning the device back on to make sure it has chance to fully turned off. Try to use this formula this might resolve all of your problems that sometimes restrict you to go online when you need to use that you computer, router, hub or modem...