Timeline for Can a power failure or forceful shutdown damage hardware?
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| Jun 25, 2015 at 14:51 | comment | added | Jonny | From this answer and the general trend of the discussion, it would seem that a computer suddenly losing power while in sleep mode would be absolutely benign because the HDD is already powered off and there are no components really drawing current that can be damaged by under- or over voltages. Does this seem accurate? | |
| May 11, 2012 at 12:33 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek♦ | due to the heating? Maybe, due to the shutdown? not any more than if you yanked the power cord and the battery. Data loss is plausible. hardware damage would be cause your system is overheating and as such FUBARed, not just cause it suddenly got shut down | |
| May 11, 2012 at 12:04 | comment | added | Pacerier | @JourneymanGeek What if the laptop overheats and suddenly shut down? Is there possible physical damage? | |
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| Aug 26, 2011 at 15:19 | history | edited | Journeyman Geek♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2011 at 9:23 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek♦ | freegeekvancouver wrote a great article on that - modern switches only handle a 5v voltage to signal to the motherboard to tell the PSU to shut down (mostly). Oldschool "manly" powerswitches handled 110 or 240V. ;p | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 8:59 | comment | added | Isxek | "Manly" power switches? :D | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 2:11 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek♦ | With the classic, proper, manly power switches, 'definately likely'. With modern soft switches, its still the motherboard that does the switching off, which would avoid any really bad power surges. There can be data loss, but physical damage, such as fried chips, or magic smoke escaping is unlikely, IMO | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 2:05 | comment | added | goblinbox | Since there is a (slight) chance of HDD damage, the answer should be "maybe," rather than "no." | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 | history | edited | Journeyman Geek♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2011 at 1:49 | comment | added | Keltari | Want to add that powering off that way can cause data not to be written to the hard drive. | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 1:22 | history | answered | Journeyman Geek♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |