After last night's rage I powered my computer down, something I rarely do. I decided it'd be a good idea to completely clear the memory (it's been behaving a bit odd ever since I installed that crap J2EE server) and because I wanted a night without it droning in the background. I awoke this morning feeling much better. There's very little a good sleep can't cure. Or something. Anyway when I tried to power the machine back up it didn't do anything. Nothing at all. The display didn't even click on. Sure, the hard-ldrive spun up, as did the CDROMs but they only need power to do that. The lights were on but no-one was home.

I didn't really have time to mess with it as I had a lecture to go to, so I just had to leave it. When I got back (with Craig in tow) we pulled it apart and reset the CMOS. Sure enough it powered up fine after that, although it did mean resetting all the CMOS settings again. *SIGH*

From now on it can just stay on. No more rebooting. I can't take the risk of it not powering up again!