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i've built my first PC in 2020 with a 650W EVGA GQ, and it got through many power outtages up to this day. i eventually bought a power strip (one that is intended to protect electronics plugged into it) after some time. my PC still works fine, except for an SSD which eventually gave up (PC does not recognize it even if plugged externally with a USB to Sata cable). Should i worry about my current PSU killing itself and taking the other components with it? should i buy a new one? im buying an UPS either way (wish i did it sooner)

Hey guys, so today I was playing COD MW2 on my pc and I had a sudden power outage and the power came back on right away so I turn my pc back on and it seems fine booting up until like 10 seconds after booting up my PC fans go crazy fast and I get a red error on my CPU’s lcd header (Corsair Elite capelix w/ lcd upgrade kit on it) (pictures of the error provided). So my fans are going crazy and it shows my cpu temps going high in the Corsair app. How did fix this??? my main pc components: Rtx4080, ryzen 9 7950x, msi x670e tomahawk motherboard Thanks!

I live in South Africa, and we have occasional scheduled power outages. Often after these power outages, my PC doesn't turn on for a while afterwards no matter what I do, and then suddenly fixes itself. Yesterday I had to wait for it to start working after the previous nights power outage, and it did after a few hours, and today I've been waiting because of last night's. The only thing is that it's been about 13 hours, way longer than it usually takes. I've tried power cycling it, leaving it unplugged, I know the PSU is working, and I've also tried most plugs in my house. The really odd thing, is that whenever I take it to a shop, it turns on fine at their outlet and then begins to work again at home.

i had a power outage for a illisec then it turend on again nothing happened to my pc but my monitor didnt open so i tried closing my pc with the bottun nothing happened so i physicaly pulled the power brick from the wall and thenn put it again then the monitor started normally but the pc wont open so i pulled out the power brick again and put it into the wall and now everything booted up correclty but my camera is randomly turining of,and when the outage happened the pc was on but all the acessories like the mouse and keyboerd turned off until now its fine but can this do damage or did damage happen to my pc.

For a few weeks I had a faulty circuit breaker which kept tripping at random times. Now it is finally fixed but since one of the last times it tripped, I am having the issue that I cant reach certain websites or services (on every device, both via wifi or cable), while other websites have zero issues. This has been very consistent for the last few days and I have already tried powering on/off, factory reset, other DNS settings etc but nothing worked so far. My ISP already sent a technician but he couldnt solve it, so now they are sending a specialist but that takes longer... Does anyone have any suggestions to try?

I left my computer on when there was a power outage in my area. Now my monitor says it's not detecting anything. Fans turn on so there is power, but there are QLED for the CPU on so I am guessing it's something wrong with that. I checked the CPU and there wasn't anything broken or dirty. So I am quite lost on what to do. What things can I do to try and fix it?

Hello, recently there was a power surge/power outage and my after that my laptop stopped working. I googled it and tried some methods where it says that the battery may be a problem or the cables but it didn’t work. Took it to a guy to see it and he said the problem is at the chipset and he needs to take 200$ to fix it. Is it even possible to fix a chipset and if it is, can i do it alone? Btw my laptop is MSI GF63 8RC - the gtx 1050 version.

Hi, so on my motherboard there is red light on DRAM. It all started when power outage happened, pc shuts down. Whe power outaged I turned off psu on switch, and when power came back. I turned on psu on switch and started pc, but it showed up something like Select Proper Boot Drive I think. Then I again turned on pc and got in bios, wanted to select my boot drive, and when i were selecting i missed ssd and clicked on hdd, again I tried to start pc but screen that display Asus stuff and that click "Del" to enter bios, just didnt pop up, and I ned to turn it up few times and when i entered bios and clicked on ssd, it started Automatic Repair, but got in loop, again i turn on pc and it is just windows blue logo and black background loop. Then I opened my pc saw that light, pulled out Ram and putted ram back in slot, but it wont show the display, monitor isnt activating on pc startup. Then I couldnt shut down pc on button, I need to switch it off or to hold on button. Also when i click on button to turn on, it starts, turns off itself and turn on again itself. Think it had some type of smell, and baddest thing that on site where is info about power outages of my city, there was no my street...

Hello! The other day I was on my Windows PC and the power went out, while I was using it. After this, it turned on then back off very fast. I thought it would be no big deal. When the power came back on, I tried booting up my PC, but it would not boot. Just a black screen. There is also an orange light on the motherboard that normally pulses at all times, now it isn’t.I ’m assuming it has something to do with the power going out and then flickering. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thank you!

Hey, So I had a power outage, and after that, my SSD is not getting recognized properly by windows. I was able to recover my data through a recovery software, then I tried a few drive partitioning softwares and all can see my folders and files. This makes me think there could be a way of getting the drive to be recognized normally by windows again without formatting it. Is this true, is there a way of doing that? It's a samsung 870 Evo 2TB Cheers and thanks in advance. :)

Hello all, I was just playing a game, and all of a sudden, the power cuts off for like a millisecond (due to inclement weather). I was wondering if the power supply is supposed to prevent the computer from shutting down immediately if the power cuts off for a very short period of time. thank you

So recently I had a power outage, power was gone for maybe 3 minutes and my power bar shut off and I heard a pop, I booted up the PC, everything seemed fine and I thought nothing of it, so I launched red dead redemption 2 and it starting freezing when it had never done that before, I thought it was the game until it started happening even on google chrome and now it takes me 3 or 4 attempts to boot up any game because it crashes almost instantly, could someone help? my pc specs are: Ryzen 5 3600 RX580 4GB asrock b450m pro4 micro ATX corsair vengeance 16GB 3000mhz and a Corsair 600watt power supply i suspect it’s a power supply issue as everything else works as it should besides the freezing and crashing but I want to be sure before I blow 80 dollars on a power supply I might not need

Today it was my first time experiencing power outage while my PC was running. I have a UPS and bought it just for this case but sadly nothing went as expected. I thought power will come back shortly within 1-2 mins but it took almost 15 mins and I was playing Destiny 2 Crucible so I let my PC run on UPS battery, after 5 mins my UPS forced my PC to restart itself and made it stuck in windows bootloop so I had to force shutdown (Holding power button). What's strange is that after force shutdown and powering on PC again, it fixed bootloop but now i'm worried that I somehow corrupt windows since my PC first restarted itself after power outage and then I force shutdown while it was in middle of boot. I'm newb when it comes to PC and would appreciate a lot if anyone could help me.

Today it was my first time experiencing power outage while my PC was running. I have a UPS and bought it just for this case but sadly nothing went as expected. I thought power will come back shortly within 1-2 mins but it took almost 15 mins and I was playing Destiny 2 Crucible so I let my PC run on UPS battery, after 5 mins my UPS forced my PC to restart itself and made it stuck in windows bootloop so I had to force shutdown (Holding power button). I don't know why windows was stuck in boot loop after restart or it could even be extremely long 1-2 min boot but since there wasn't much power left in my UPS so I had to force shutdown my PC. I'm worried that I somehow messed up and caused hardware damage. Is there any way to tell if there is any damage?

Hi there, I got home from school a couple hours ago and the power was out. Eventually the power turned back on and I went to turn my pc on but it wouldn't boot. The standby lights on the motherboard are on but pressing the power button does nothing. I have tried using a different power supply but that doesn't do anything. I do not know what to do. PLS HELP

So last night there was a storm and the power went out for 2 hours max. My computer was on at the time, but not in use and not sleeping/hibernating. When I turned my computer on for the first time since then tonight, it wouldn't boot and gave the 0xc000000e error. I went into the BIOS and saw that it did not register my SSD but it did register my HDD and my CD drive. Perplexed, I switched the port to one of the working ports, and checked again. No bueno. Then I tried switching cables. No bueno. Then I tried power cycling. No bueno. Now I am trying to boot into Windows with a USB 3.0 flash drive, although I think that the next ice age will come and go before that happens, and I have no idea why it's taking so long. I have considered the possibility that it is bricked by the storm, but I find that unlikely since I am using a surge protector and my PSU has some kind of similar feature built in. In addition, besides my sanity, it is only my SSD that is having issues. Does anyone know any magic incantations that could fix this? I would gladly pay any price or make a deal with demons to sacrifice my first born child or only eat toenails for the rest of my life, or both. If I must perform a blood ritual, then it looks like the neighbor's great dane is going to run off while they are at work tomorrow. Seriously though, someone please help. Relevant components: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb

I use a Windows 7 pc for Netflix, Amazon, YouTube I think (I have been beating this old rig with everything I know for over 10 hours real life time and YouTube was still acting like I was on or connecting to DSL circa 2001). Anyway, a third power outage in the last 3 days (We get 2 feet of snow In three hours here with 35-100 mph winds and don't lose power even though the lines are above ground; the pine and wet maple just bend. Oily trees I tell ya. Fricken rain. Windows is doing it's "we'll just update you for no reason (when the power goes out the lines are so old the pc initially thinks it was when it was first built in 2011? When the Win 10 update was mini mandatory. Great, if your power does not keep going off. I would have gladly accepted the free update now for this pc. No, I got my files flummoxed instead. Mind you I am home, so no physical versions of any OS' (not true, I have 98 and 2k, a Win 7 disk I bought for $149 with a student discount, that I can't find... So Windows did it again. I love my PSU, but this can't happen. Both PC's post. One is good now, and the other will be soon, but the drop f'd up so many things on the *fun* pc. 4379 files moved but not deleted. 2957 of those files replaced. All restore points gone. Firefox takes me, nowhere. Opera, nowhere, just another error message. I right click, properties, blah blah, and have nonsense as where shortcuts are supposed to go. Oh, this last reboot after changing 100 or so programs to manual then starting or stopping them, took 21 minutes on an OC'd 3570 (I grabbed a great Asus cooler and can run 4.7 at 65c on air, with the Peltier + fan as an intake). So 21 minutes, Opera works, finally, and Firefox lists y target as c:\users\...\roaming\browsers\explorers\exe\xofenif.bat and a start in of C:\Users\...\appdata\roaming browsers shortcut key : none run : c:\users\...\XOFENIF\play world of warships.exe\minimized Almost every file is like that. By the way, I now have War of Tanks, Warships, Warframe, Imperial Online, and War Thunder! Guess that was in the update too? Why does MS do things like this? I would have called and asked for help but it would just take longer, and no Opera or Firefox help, or any other program MS does not develop/sell, so a waste of time. I know if this happened to anyone else in my immediate circle of friends/family besides my uncle Thomas (He started working for NASA in 1980, then wrote for the CIA, Navy, the NSA, then was finally allowed to work on normal programs at Raytheon in the mid 90's, finally got out and writes medical software now) would have just taken the PC and thrown it at someone who was trying to take away U.K. Imaginary privacy. Again, why does MS do this, when they have no one who is available to help?. Not saying there are not people who take the calls, but they are not equipped to answer the questions that need answers. I'm just going to reinstall Firefox and MIE at this point, as I don't feel like digging through folders and searching for files who's names were changed in yet another botched update (I probably could have gotten everything straight in the time it took me to type this, but I needed to vent a bit. Umm, go AMD. Please get your IPC up so Intel has to come back to earth pricewise. And NVidea, you won the GPU battle, don't pull out now leaving us with $1700 + cards as you will only be doing deep learning after Volta. AMD/Radeon Technologies can compete in the consumer market for the next decade or so, but then they will just turn into you, Price gouging like a son of a gun against an Upstart Samsung.

Hello, As the title suggests I am having issues with my spare PC freezing on boot (windows 10 where the dots go in a loop). Everything in the computer individually works. I plugged the SSD into my main PC and ran into issues with booting as well (on my main PC it throws me into windows recovery). Recovery didn't help as it just comes up with an error. I've formatted the OS SSD on my main PC and it boots into a clean OS just fine on there, The issue is when I try to boot into it when I plug it back into the spare PC. The computer just freezes on loading (even in safe mode) when trying to boot into the SSD or a Windows 10 USB tool. If any parts do need to be replace I'd like to keep the cost as low as possible. Specs of PC: i7 3770k Asus Maximus V Extreme 16GB (4x4) Corsair Dominator Platinum 1600 MHz Corsair RM 650 PSU Samsung 830 Pro 128GB WD 1TB black HDD

Hello, thinking of getting a UPS to protect my PC, just wondered will my PC actually be protected. If so, what problems will I have and what could I do to stop them. Thank you

Hi, I recently finished my new build and since then I had 2 power outage in the room where my computer is. I want to know if my computer could be the cause of those power outage. Mobo: Asus Zenith extreme II alpha PCU: AMD thread ripper 2950X GPU: Asus Rog strip 2080 Ti RAM: GSkill trident Z neo 64gb PSU: Seasonic prime 1300W 1TB m.2 SSD from samsung I also have 2 monitor plugged-in with a desk lamp and a digital clock (I don't think the power usage could be significant tho) Thank you and have a great day

So i had a Thermaltake Litepower 450w PSU where the reading of 5v was 4.7v and 12v reading was 11.6v. I checked these stuffs when my PSU was causing problems, restarting while load. I didn't check these readings when it was new because i didn't know of these stuffs. I don't know what damaged the PSU but all i can remember that in summer there was power outage everyday at least once. So i bought a new PSU recently which is Cooler Master MWE 80+ Gold 650w PSU, Which has the following readings [attached]. I know a UPS can solve my problem. But i just want to know that if regular power outage can damage your PSU no matter how high quality PSU it is? Thank You!

Hey hey all! TL:DR first: Power outage, windows will not install. Replaced MOBO, and SSD, same issue. I've tried finding this exact issue in the forums, so I appologize in advance if it is already resolved here. So my friend had a power outage, since then his pc will not boot up. It turns on and runs, all fans turn including the gpu/cpu fans. All lights come on. And the furthest I can get is to: Copying Files...(100%) (INSTANTLY jumps to 100%) Installing Files...(1%... ERROR) Says it had an issue copying the files and to make sure all files were there. Then it BDOD's. I've replaced the SSD thinking it messed up, nope. Same with the MOBO. So now I'm going to try a different windows 10 installer even though I did previously use that same stick to install windows on my bosses front desk computer. My friends PC Build: Ryzen5 3600 16GB RAM (2 sticks) Gigabyte GAMING 5 MOBO (swapped it) Kingston SSD (Swapped it) EVGA PSU (obviously working) The only things I have not swapped would be the CPU and GPU and RAM. I'm going to fly it back with me to test our the GPU/RAM and see if I can borrow someones CPU or depending on the advice I gather here, probably just buy a new one. But I'm hoping it's simply the windows installer for some reason.

Hi all, I was using my desktop when I noticed the lights in my room dim a little then return to full brightness. I assume there was some sort of power fluctuation, this is something I've never experienced before and I'm worried that something may have happened to my computer. This happened when it was only drizzling outside and by the time that this is posted, I'm in the midst of a full blown thunderstorm. After this power fluctuation, I immediately shut down my pc. It is plugged into a surge protector but that doesn't help in this kind of situation... i think. What damage could I have done to my computer, and what should I check for once I can get it running.

Maybe not the right forum to ask this, but I will ask it here My problem is that I live in rural area where power outages happen sometimes, especially during severe weather. I have a powerful diesel generator set up in my house that can power almost all of the electronics in my house, but when the mains power fails it takes about half a minute to a minute to kick in, so I lose my PC, my router and all unsaved work, and it is also not good for the hardware. But classic UPSes are expensive and I don't need their capacity to keep the PC running for hours. What I need is a budget "UPS", that can keep my PC and routers running only for a minute while the diesel spins up, but can deliver enough power, as my PC and routers drain about 500 Watt at normal operation. Or maybe what I'm asking for isn't even called UPS, so do you have any suggestions for me?