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Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special

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Re: Even to this day...

Yeah. Problem is that in this case the shutdown command was fed into the right computer, but it didn't switch itself off. That really wasn't unusual back in them days. Even if you had a motherboard and PSU capable of giving the power-off command when the OS was halted, Windows NT4 needed a registry entry manually added to actually go and do it.

Makes me glad for the iLO lamp - you can confirm the machine before you do something stupid and physical.

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