Mikeus Caesar
08-24-2008, 14:16
For the last few days i've been having an issue with my PC. I'll come to turn it on for the first time that day, i'll push the button, and the usual huge roaring sound of everything coming to life fills my room. Then a second later the computer just turns off. Complete power failure. But, it isn't complete. Anything plugged into USB ports still goes, but the computer itself just powers off. There'll be a high pitched whining sound coming from the PSU. I can't get the computer to turn back on without pulling the power cable from the PSU for 5 seconds. Afterwards, it's mostly fine. Sometimes the computer will turn back off again after 10 seconds, sometimes the fans will cut out for a few seconds, but it generally seems to be fine after i pull the cable out for a bit.
The question is, what the dickens is going on? The problems seem to have been occuring ever since the middle of the week, when the switch was tripped on the fuseboard controlling all the power plugs in the house after my dad did something stupid with the microwave. Is it a possibility that the idiocy with the microwave caused a sudden powersurge that damaged my PSU, even if it was briefly for a second before all the power went off?
The question is, what the dickens is going on? The problems seem to have been occuring ever since the middle of the week, when the switch was tripped on the fuseboard controlling all the power plugs in the house after my dad did something stupid with the microwave. Is it a possibility that the idiocy with the microwave caused a sudden powersurge that damaged my PSU, even if it was briefly for a second before all the power went off?