can a sudden power outage damage the PC ?

[maria2244]

can a sudden power loss damage the motherboard CPU GPU or the entire pc ?

[Creed1]

2 minutes ago, maria2244 said:

can a sudden power loss damage the motherboard CPU GPU or the entire pc ?

Yes. Thats why its recommended to get a power surge protector

[maria2244]

Just now, CmzPlusHardware said:

Yes. Thats why its recommended to get a power surge protector

what power outage has to do with power spike and surges ?

[mechtech]

1 minute ago, maria2244 said:

what power outage has to do with power spike and surges ?

When the power is interrupted and comes back on again, it can cause a surge, or spike in amount of electricity that flows back into the house. Another common cause is when lightning strikes around the ground or electric poles.

[Inception9269]

Pretty sure unless you have a cheap ass power supply you should be fine. At my house we used to have power issues all the time, power cutting off to my pc way too frequently, but it never caused any pc trouble.

 

Unless you have raid 0 drives you should be fine.

[maria2244]

Just now, mechtech said:

When the power is interrupted and comes back on again, it can cause a surge, or spike in amount of electricity that flows back into the house. Another common cause is when lightning strikes around the ground or electric poles.

I have a good quality PSU seasonic G650

so a little spike when the electricity come back is not a proplem here

I'm just asking about a power loss sudden power outage

can it cause damage ?

[maria2244]

Just now, Inception9269 said:

Pretty sure unless you have a cheap ass power supply you should be fine. At my house we used to have power issues all the time, power cutting off to my pc way too frequently, but it never caused any pc trouble.

 

Unless you have raid 0 drives you should be fine.

I have seasonic G650

[Inception9269]

A 23 year old girl gamer? Where have you been all my life

[maria2244]

Just now, Inception9269 said:

A 23 year old girl gamer? Where have you been all my life

I'm NOT a gamer

I just like to use the EOD bot in bf4 .

[mechtech]

1 minute ago, maria2244 said:

I have a good quality PSU seasonic G650

so a little spike when the electricity come back is not a proplem here

I'm just asking about a power loss sudden power outage

can it cause damage ?

Understood. No not to the components you listed, loss of power on its own can cause hard drive damage, and data loss of course, but never damage components like GPU, CPU or motherboard on its own.

However, because power surges often follow complete power loss, a surge protector is recommended, even with a Seasonic powersupply (which is my fav brand btw, good choice)

[RadiatingLight]

4 minutes ago, maria2244 said:

I have a good quality PSU seasonic G650

so a little spike when the electricity come back is not a proplem here

I'm just asking about a power loss sudden power outage

can it cause damage ?

Nope. but if your drives are in the middle of a write operation while they are stopped, they can lose the files they are writing. so some minor data loss is possible.

worst case scenario, your Operating System gets corrupted because the drive was writing some critical file when power went out (maybe during an update or something)

[steffeeh]

This is the reason I bought a UPS to maintain enough power to properly close down the computer, don't wanna get a corrupted OS or a failed harddrive and lose stuff. Not to mention it's a real pain forgetting to save something, then a power outage come and a lot of hard work is gone... of course you should save often, but sometimes we humans still forget.