Force Shutdown Question

[TheSuspect]

Ah so I was swapping from 144hz to 60hz to fix glitches I was getting with obs, only to find the game I was recording messed up and I ended up with a black screen with audio still playing and peripherals still lit. I ended up doing a force shutdown, only to find that the pc wouldn't boot. I tried switching the psu on and off, which fixed nothing. I left it for 5 minutes, nothing. I came onto the forum, and before I posted, I clicked the power one more time, and, to my luck, I saw the gpu and motherboard lights turn on. Phew. 

 

Now, why did this happen? This is the third force shutdown I've done in this computer's lifespan (about 5 weeks) and this is the only time that it's brought issues. Other forums suggest something died, which freaked me out, but that's not the case. Is it maybe power draw? I know for sure it wasn't heating issues because cpu was under 50 and gpu was under 50.

 

i7 6700k

Evga gtx 1070 ftw

Seasonic S12II 520w (I know I sort of messed up on the capacity)

Msi Z170a krait 3x

Windows 10 home 64bit

 

[it_dont_work]

13 minutes ago, TheSuspect said:

Now, why did this happen?

Gremlins.

 

Don't worry too much, lock ups and forced shutdowns are part of having a pc. Just try to avoid them, and if you can leave it for a minute or two before starting back up. Occasionally if I have to hard reset mine it wont boot (it's relatively old now), just wait 30 sec and it's fine. Most of the time it's just motherboard having a brain fart.

 

Worry if regularly during normal use it wont start or shut down properly, that usually gives a hint of hardware fault. It's possible to damage things, but incredibly rare

[TheLaserCucumber]

A ghost lives in Skylake.

My PC with i7 6700K too had ridiculously long POST times because I don't know. 

But now everything works fine without me changing anything