My Pc suddenly wouldn’t turn on

[signalbar]

I have an issue when only happened after heavy rains, my pc would not turn on. This is the 3rd time that happened to it already. 

 

First time was my M.2 drive and PSU (iCute 450W) got affect and I replace my M.2 with Lexar NS100 sad and same PSU

 

Second time was my mobo and ssd, I replaced both again and upgraded my PSU to EVGA 500W2 and this time round same thing occur again.

 

It was working fine yesterday and after I shutdown my pc I will always make the habit to unplug my psu and monitor power cable, I even gotten a surge protector after the second time that have happened. But today I plugged in back the cables and tried to turn on but there’s no response from my pc again. I’m not sure whether it’s due to the heavy rain.

 

My PC specs I’m using now:

 

MOBO: ASRock AB350M-HDV

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock cooler, not overclocked)

GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 3GB

SSD: Lexar 120GB 

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm

RAM: KLEVV 2x4GB Bolt DDR4-2400 

PSU: EVGA 500W2

 

 

 

 

[SavageNeo]

11 minutes ago, signalbar said:

I have an issue when only happened after heavy rains, my pc would not turn on. This is the 3rd time that happened to it already. 

 

First time was my M.2 drive and PSU (iCute 450W) got affect and I replace my M.2 with Lexar NS100 sad and same PSU

 

Second time was my mobo and ssd, I replaced both again and upgraded my PSU to EVGA 500W2 and this time round same thing occur again.

 

It was working fine yesterday and after I shutdown my pc I will always make the habit to unplug my psu and monitor power cable, I even gotten a surge protector after the second time that have happened. But today I plugged in back the cables and tried to turn on but there’s no response from my pc again. I’m not sure whether it’s due to the heavy rain.

 

My PC specs I’m using now:

 

MOBO: ASRock AB350M-HDV

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock cooler, not overclocked)

GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 3GB

SSD: Lexar 120GB 

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm

RAM: KLEVV 2x4GB Bolt DDR4-2400 

PSU: EVGA 500W2

 

 

 

 

It could be that your electricity is affected by the rain. IDK whats happening there really

[Juular]

1) Don't unplug your power cables, you're isolating your PSU from ground. If you would get a lightning strike through your LAN cable then the energy will go through PC electronics and dissipate as heat (frying it of course) instead of just sinking right away into ground lead (if your outlet are grounded properly), possibly still damaging the network card but that's better than losing entire PC. Also, there's possibilty that with rather heavy thunder it can induce currents in your PC electronics too, in this case grounding will help also but i'm not sure how powerful a thunder should be to make this effect. At most you can disconnect the LAN cable when it's raining but if your surge protector has LAN decoupler it will help.

2) Your PSU is crap, that's quite possibly just an intermittent issue with it.

[Ben17]

34 minutes ago, signalbar said:

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock cooler, not overclocked)

GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 3GB

SSD: Lexar 120GB 

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm

RAM: KLEVV 2x4GB Bolt DDR4-2400 

PSU: EVGA 500W2

It's probably the PSU tbh though your electricity could be affected by the weather...

[Falkentyne]

1 hour ago, signalbar said:

I have an issue when only happened after heavy rains, my pc would not turn on. This is the 3rd time that happened to it already. 

 

First time was my M.2 drive and PSU (iCute 450W) got affect and I replace my M.2 with Lexar NS100 sad and same PSU

 

Second time was my mobo and ssd, I replaced both again and upgraded my PSU to EVGA 500W2 and this time round same thing occur again.

 

It was working fine yesterday and after I shutdown my pc I will always make the habit to unplug my psu and monitor power cable, I even gotten a surge protector after the second time that have happened. But today I plugged in back the cables and tried to turn on but there’s no response from my pc again. I’m not sure whether it’s due to the heavy rain.

 

My PC specs I’m using now:

 

MOBO: ASRock AB350M-HDV

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (stock cooler, not overclocked)

GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 3GB

SSD: Lexar 120GB 

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm

RAM: KLEVV 2x4GB Bolt DDR4-2400 

PSU: EVGA 500W2

 

 

 

 

Where exactly are you living? Are you from a southeast asian country or are you here in America?

That's a very rare issue.  You may need to get your house outlets and electrical lines checked.

[signalbar]

3 hours ago, Falkentyne said:

Where exactly are you living? Are you from a southeast asian country or are you here in America?

That's a very rare issue.  You may need to get your house outlets and electrical lines checked.

I’m living in Singapore, in our country the electrical lines are all built underground and managed by the government. One of my buddy also suggest me to get an electrician to check.

[signalbar]

4 hours ago, Juular said:

1) Don't unplug your power cables, you're isolating your PSU from ground. If you would get a lightning strike through your LAN cable then the energy will go through PC electronics and dissipate as heat (frying it of course) instead of just sinking right away into ground lead (if your outlet are grounded properly), possibly still damaging the network card but that's better than losing entire PC. Also, there's possibilty that with rather heavy thunder it can induce currents in your PC electronics too, in this case grounding will help also but i'm not sure how powerful a thunder should be to make this effect. At most you can disconnect the LAN cable when it's raining but if your surge protector has LAN decoupler it will help.

2) Your PSU is crap, that's quite possibly just an intermittent issue with it.

Oh I didn’t know it will go through LAN cable as well, I’ll take note on that. Should I try plugging to the main power outlets instead of using a power strip? And I was planning to upgrade my PSU to 700W, which one would you recommend?

[Ben17]

1 hour ago, signalbar said:

Oh I didn’t know it will go through LAN cable as well, I’ll take note on that. Should I try plugging to the main power outlets instead of using a power strip? And I was planning to upgrade my PSU to 700W, which one would you recommend?

i would defn try plugging it directly into the wall and bypassing the power strip 

[Juular]

1 hour ago, signalbar said:

Should I try plugging to the main power outlets instead of using a power strip?

27 minutes ago, Ben17 said:

i would defn try plugging it directly into the wall and bypassing the power strip 

It doesn't matter, any good power strip has ground leads connected to the outlet too.

1 hour ago, signalbar said:

And I was planning to upgrade my PSU to 700W, which one would you recommend?

There's only Newegg on PCPP for Singapore, according to it's prices i'd say it's either Corsair CX550M for 160$ or Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 550W for 210$ but it might be that you have some other online PC parts stores to choose from ?