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Did a solar flare screw up my computer last night?
Last night I was about to shut my eyes and go to sleep, and so I put my computer on sleep. Only as I did this I noticed that the digital LED display on my digital radio went off, which is odd because the radio was on, and it's ALWAYS on when the radio is on. At exactly the same time my computer went all weird, and instead of going to sleep the fan started whurring and it didn't seem to turn off. The keyboard lights were still on, and the on light was still at green. Multiple efforts at clicking and pressing things failed to rectify the situation and in the end I had to restore normal functionality by holding down the on/off button to restart in safe mode. I never have any problems like this with my computer, which is a pretty solid Windows 7 Sony Vaio. I wouldn't have thought this was particularly out of the ordinary though if it hadn't coincided with my digital radio also acting weird, and at the time I considered the unusual coincidence might be down to solar flare activity, which is known to affect electronics equipment.
So today I googled solar flare activity and low and behold it turns out there has been a lot of activity recently.
Sun sends 28 solar flares erupting through space in a week... and there may be more on the way | Mail Online
Do you think this is a reasonable theory?