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Tagged with power-supply hardware-failure
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PC is buzzing under load
I've got a mini-itx small factor PC
GTX 980
i5 6600
SF PSU 600W
When it's under a load, like running a game for example, it starts buzzing usually.
These are two examples, not from my box but the ...
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UPS turning on and off repeatedly
I'm using an Intex Protector UPS. When I push the power button it starts with a beep, which is normal, I know. But when the beep ends, the light which shows power turns off and button remains pressed. ...
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Computer cannot boot to bios
When I turn on my computer, it just goes go to a black blank screen. It only has an internal graphic card.
Upon further investigation, I noticed the fan intermittently stop and start again.
Things I ...
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Power surge, computer can't find one hard drive, case light still on
So, my entire machine is consistently plugged into a surge protector. All the same, a sudden electrical storm caused a total power down. After starting it back up, it can't find a relatively important ...
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does power supply redundant failure cause kernel panic? [closed]
Just after one of the power supply failed, the following error was recoreded in syslog. (the OS is ubuntu 14.04.) I am running a JVM (java virtual machine) with 64 HEAP on server with 128 RAM. do you ...
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RAM is dying. Could the power supply be the cause?
I was playing on my old PC when the Blue screen happened and my PC restarted. After that it froze and there was no way to recover it except to force it to shut down.
My screen didn't show anything ...
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Windows 10 machine rebooting intermittently
My windows 10 machine is starting to frequently crash. No BSOD, just power off and it starts back up. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it... I can be working the box gaming or something and ...
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Desktop PC doesn't switch on, power cuts
Today I have quite a big problem with my HP Pavillon Desktop pre-built computer.
So, what happens?
Well, when I press the power button, nothing happens. There's a led light on the back of the ...
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Power supply failure
New everything! LED lights green on motherboard when power is turned on. BUT THAT'S ALL! No fans moving, no hard drive spinning, no indication of any other power. No resonse from anything. Again,
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PC won't power on after blackout
Problem:
Power went out for about an hour yesterday morning. I didn't worry about it much because all my electronics are behind surge protectors, but when I tried to boot up my old PC this afternoon ...
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PC turning off intermittently
Current Specs:
Motherboard: Maximus VII Hero (Socket 1150)
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K
Ram: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3-1599
Video: EVGA GTX 1070
PSU: EVGA 750 G3
SSD: ...
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Windows 10 PC reboots randomly with NO BSOD (New hardware)
EDIT/TLDR: See my answer below: https://superuser.com/a/1281893/855012
I have a brand new build that has a random problem that happens typically once or twice daily, but it runs great the remainder ...
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Is it a PSU or motherboard failure? Or something else?
My desktop computer suddenly stopped working today. When it happened, the fuse in the house was also knocked off. After switching it back on, I tried to turn the computer back on but nothing happened -...
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Power Supply turns off 10 seconds after power on
I have an Antec VP450 PSU. Today when I switched on my PC it turned off right before Windows loaded. I narrowed down the issue to this PSU, removed it and tested it by shorting the green wire in the ...
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Battery reports it's fine, but notebook won't boot /wo AC plugged in
I am running Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-581TG. I opened it up to clean (as I've done twice before), assembled it back and now observe weird behaviour: the laptop won't react to the power button ...
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