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So last night we were having one of our normal afternnoon storms here in Florida and our power went out for a split second. I came back into the office and saw that both of my monitors were flashing, I thought it was abnormal so I went ahead and rebooted my system and it did the same thing. At this point I was at a loss. I went ahead and unplugged all of my peripherals except for my keyboard, mouse, one monitor and my GPU, it kept giving me the same error, so at a last resort, I went ahead and did a system restore to an earlier backup and that seemed to have solved my issue's, it booted within its normal times with my SSD. My question is, should I be worried at all that there is a larger error and I have just managed to put a band-aid on it? I am fairly sure it is not my PSU, Mobo or GPU seeing as I am fairly sure that I would not have managed to operate normally after I did my restore. Thanks!!

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Well if it is running fine then you should be fine, the powercut probably messed up some system files and nothing else. The flashing monitor I have no idea on so can't help you there.

 

Thought keep an eye on it if anything starts behaving weird.

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Well if it is running fine then you should be fine, the powercut probably messed up some system files and nothing else. The flashing monitor I have no idea on so can't help you there.

 

Thought keep an eye on it if anything starts behaving weird.

I am watching this PC like a hawk right now

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I am watching this PC like a hawk right now

 

Does anything seem to be out of the ordinary?

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run a few benchmarks. play some games. push the system and look for anything that could be an issue.
Just be thankful it didnt kill a component right then and there, and you should get a power bar with surge protection on it.

 

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