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Powering Going Out Can Damage Computer?

MaximusX
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Yesterday night the power went out and my pc seems fine.  Whats the worst that can happen or is there something that might of happened that I don't know about to my pc?(Sorry if this is a dump question not sure what happens in the situation)

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Your data can be corrupted, maybe the PSU struggles but mostly nothing major happens

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It could crash your PC.

But most of the time nothing bad will happen. You might want to buy a backup battery or something though, if you live in an area with power going out frequently so you can safely shut it down in case it happens again.

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If it's a Lightning Storm, make sure to be hooked up to a Decent Quality Power Strip

Because he had a hard drive.

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Are you perhaps a resident of South Africa experiencing our main attraction right now which is Load Shedding? Just curious.

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It's not the power going out that is damaging, its the potential power surge that happens as it's going out that can fry stuff. From a simple power loss, the worst that may happen will be some corrupted data from not saving properly.

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If you have your PC plugged into a surge protector you should be fine. If not, some components can be damaged. 

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Depending on the nature of the power outage, it could range anywhere from your PC just gets forced into a shutoff to serious hardware damage. With the PC being forced to shutoff, typically nothing horrible will happen but you may loose some data if you were working on a file at the time, or some data may be corrupted. Hardware damage can definitely occur, although it is rather rare and many PSU's these day have voltage protection equipment to contain the damage to the PSU.

If you don't already get your computer on a good (not a dollar store one) surge protector that is actually rated for the amount of power your PC draws. With a good surge protector that risk of hardware damage is pretty well near 0. Even better if you can afford a smart UPS that can shut your computer down gracefully in the event of a power outage.

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It's not the power going out that is damaging, its the potential power surge that happens as it's going out that can fry stuff. From a simple power loss, the worst that may happen will be some corrupted data from not saving properly.

 

Yep. It's when the power comes back on, there can be a momentary surge. Most modern good quality PSU's can handle something like this, but not always. Best to use a surge protector to be safe. 

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Nothing much would happen any unsaved data would be lost, computer may take a little longer to boot, because it's checking the drives for any problems.

Now if you had a power surge that would BE bad, your PSU might overload and possibly damage components.

As people will no doubt point out, at least have a surge protector to protect yourself and if really care about your data grab a UPS(uninterruptible power supply), it will also protect you when a power surge happens.

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If you RAM cache with something like Samsung RAPID software, your chance of corrupt data is actually way higher I hear. I use this technology, and I was surprised to hear that, as I didn't know.

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I have always and will forever use an UPS with my computer.  All of my critical electronics are plugged to an UPS.  Not long ago, I bought a 1300VA Cyberpower Pure Sinewave UPS for my computer replacing a still functional regular 1000VA one.   I will buy another Pure Sinwave down the road for my entertainment system. 

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I used to use a ups, but it made my speakers have a weird static noise? Not sure but it was fine when the ups was powered from mains. As soon as power goes, a horrible noise comes through my speakers (Don't wanna break my speakers)

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If it's a power spike or something from a lightning storm and your hardware isn't protected, worst case scenario is everything is fried.

 

If it's just the power going out, worst case scenario your data gets corrupted which is unlikely.

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