Technicians use this fundamental troubleshooting step to clear volatile memory, halt crashed software processes, and force hardware components to reinitialize from a clean state. It requires physically unplugging the device or toggling a hard power switch, rather than relying on a software reboot command. This resolves many transient firmware lockups and network connection drops.
Heard on the job
I can't reach the router remotely, so you'll need to go to the server room and power-cycle it manually.
Also heard as
- hard reset