Technology, what can it do?

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It can completely and entirely fuck your Monday in the arse.

So maybe I shouldn't have bragged so much in the previous post.  I  was having a lot of trouble logging in at work yesterday and the ops guy and I spent an inordinate amount of time trying different things trying to get my remote machine to talk to the AD server and authenticate.  (We found a workaround this morning when I authenticated through a differerent domain controller.)

In the process of this mess, I decided to reboot my local machine just in case it was something wrong on my end.  I sincerely doubted that because I could RDP into other machines outside of our network, and I could authenticate with Lync (which server is in the other office where the other domain controller is).

So I rebooted, and the machine absolutely refused to boot back up.  It kept dying right after it enumerated the RAID drives (and sometimes it didn't even get that far).  So I spent three hours yesterday trying to figure out why that had broken.  At first I thought one of the mirrored drives had died.  That wasn't it.  Then I thought maybe the external backup drive had died and was somehow affecting the bootup.  That wasn't it.  In the end, I disconnected all of the USB-attached peripherals, reattached both of the mirror drives, and tried again.

That time it worked.  Booted right up like there had never been a problem.  So I started adding USB peripherals back to see which one might be hosed. Turns out I put them all back (even updated the firmware and control software for one of them since it came up when I plugged it back in) and it's still running.

Beats the hell out of me.

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