Strange electrical problem

computernerd12345 · 2007-05-23T00:07:55+00:00

I have been trying to fix a strange electrical problem and am now at aloss where to look next. My house was built in 1986 and is a two storywith basement. A couple of days ago I came home and found that mygarage door would not work. I assumed that it was a stuck button butwhen I went in I found that the garage lights did not work either.Luckily, the garage outlets (other than the ceiling outlet for thedoor opener) are on a separate circuit so my freezer, etc. are stillon.The first thing I did was go outside and flip all the breakers off andback on but none appeared to be tripped. Later I noticed that two ofmy bathrooms were also without power. I am not sure exactly whichbreaker is the correct one but there are no GFCI breakers. Instead,each bathroom has a GFCI outlet. I checked to make sure that theGFCI's had not tripped but none seemes to be. I then thought thatmaybe the contractor had wired the second bathroom and garage off ofthe GFCI output so I pulled out the outlets in both bathrooms.However, I found that the outlets themselves were the only things GFCI-protected; the outputs from these outlets just had wire nuts on them.I then decided to check and make sure the breakers were good. I used avoltmeter to test the output on each breaker and they all came out at122 volts. At this point, I am at a loss as to where to look. Thisseems really strange. I haven't been working on any wiring projectsand the house isn't that old and doesn't have any aluminum wiring.Any thoughts?

May 23, 2007 43 Replies

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Mark Lloyd 19 years ago

The current version of Forte Agent does not support free mode. I think the latest version that did was 3.3. 3.3 is still a good one.

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mm 19 years ago

No kidding! Thanks, that's good to know.

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computernerd12345 19 years ago

I apologize. I didn't realize it was meant as a joke. It looked like plain sarcasm to me. I was already greatly irritated when got online and saw that the miserable Google Groups' "unsuccessful - try again later" messages were bogus and it had actually posted them all, but with a multi-hour delay. I see so much rudeness in usenet in general and so many flame wars that I assumed this was the same. Again, my apologies to the jokester and also to the group.

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Mark Lloyd 19 years ago

I have set up my newsreader to display the "User-Agent:" and "X-Newsreader:" headers, and a lot of problem posts are showing "User-Agent: G2/1.0". Seemingly meaningless, but that's what Google is using.

The software is reminding me of AOL.

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