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Tagged with power-supply hardware-failure
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Friend's PC working in my home, not in his
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My friend has a PC whose cabinet keeps shocking and it regularly keeps making problems from time to time, like
• Disk read error
• Hard Drive not found
• Blank Grey Screen when booting
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Computer crashing at random
I've been having a "small-ish" issue where my computer randomly shuts down. Be it in the middle of a game or work etc, even on idle, it just crashes and reboots. no BSOD or anything. One ...
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Usb ports connecting and disconnecting
I know this is not the place to ask about hardware problems and solutions, but I can't search on google anymore... I've been for over 24hours searching on google about my problem and trying to get a ...
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Laptop always turns itself on again
Since yesterday my Laptop won't turn off anymore. When I shut it down, it takes a few seconds and then it turns itself on again. Doesn't matter if I let it boot and shutdown again, or turn it of in ...
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Computer doesn't turn on when pressing the power button
It's not that it doesn't boot, but that the computer simply doesn't turn on. Absolutely nothing happens when I press the power button. Strangely enough, at some point it does turn on. This time it ...
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How to diagnose the cause of black screen in Windows 10 OS?
I'm running into some problems with random black screens as described in another question:
random black screens
As I have not received so far, no reply that could help debug the cause of this black ...
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Is My Power-Supply Faulty? or Could It be something Else
So I Suspect my Power Supply to be faulty but I am unsure and want some advice,
I turned off my PC(full shutdown via windows)
and then in the morning it would not start again, I press the Power Button ...
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Can a power outage damage PC hardware?
TL;DR: can a planned "power outage" damage PC hardware aside from HDD/SSD (which won't be connected to the PCs) - mobo, gpu, cpu, psu, dvd, fans?
(the internet says "yes it can" vs ...
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Can this hardware failure be a faulty motherboard?
I have a self built PC which is running for around seven years now without a problem. Yesterday, in the middle of streaming Netflix on Ubuntu, the screen froze. Only a hard reset worked. After the ...
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Computer won't boot into BIOS after I had used hairdryer to clean the PSU
I need help, it is very urgent:
I shut down my computer, unplugged everything, opened the case, saw the power supply unit was dusty and used a hairdryer to clean it; after doing so, my computer won't ...
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Why would a computer stop working until a PSU is temporarily replaced
I had a few out of the ordinary power outage, I say out of the ordinary because from what I recall, computer lost power due to the UPS battery depletion after the recovery of a first power loss.
Once ...
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Which SATA power cable is standard?, and why are there 2 standards?
Pictured are two visually identical SATA Power cables, meant to connect to a PSU (the other end of each cable, not pictured, connects to a SATA drive). They're only distinguishable by the metal inside ...
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Weird PSU behaviour
My HTPC stopped powering up. NOTHING AT ALL happens when I press the power button on the case AND the power button on the motherboard itself, too.
My first thought was that the ATX PSU, which is not ...
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Disconnected cable in the ATX power connector but PC still runs normally, should I keep using it?
So, I have a AeroCool KCAS-600W PSU, and today while I was using my computer I noticed that a orange cable had poped out of the socket. So I basicly grabed it and put it back into place. Please the in ...
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Can someone help me troubleshoot PC shutdown (I have HWmonitor logs in spreadsheet)
Happens when heavily gaming, PC will suddenly power down without warning. I can't boot it back up unless I unplug the PSU from the wall and back in, then it comes up fine.
I've run HW monitor logging ...
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