We are in Africa and so have unreliable power. When there was a power cut during the night the whole machine will of course turn off. When the power returned the machine does not automatically start up and so looks like its finished its cycle. When my wife opened it up in the morning there was a load water at the bottom. I started to read all the internet solutions such as this forum, but in the end I just turn it on again and it remembered which part of cycle its on and finished :)