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my comp damaged?
- Thread starter suqmaster
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After reading your post I was transported back in time to my noobie days. Must refrain from.......
Fear not young noobie,
Probably not,
The only way to know for sure is to turn it on.
If you had something going when the power went out you would lose it.
A bigger danger would be if the Pc is on (like your fridge) when the power comes back up, Then a surge could cook something. Thats why a good surge protector or even UPS setup is a good idea.
Hope all is as it should be
Fear not young noobie,
Probably not,
The only way to know for sure is to turn it on.
If you had something going when the power went out you would lose it.
A bigger danger would be if the Pc is on (like your fridge) when the power comes back up, Then a surge could cook something. Thats why a good surge protector or even UPS setup is a good idea.
Hope all is as it should be
well.....I think I have a surge protector thingie, isn't it a thing that plugs into an outlet with like six other outlets that gets plugged into that thing? Too bad I didn't turn the power off when it came back on, don't know if it did anything or not. All I know is that far cry seems to have some artifacts
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Ice Czar
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well the most likely damaged components would be
RAM so test it http://www.memtest.org/
and drives > http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=761272
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=742083
and the CPU also test I use Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
finally regarding power conditioning
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs9.htm
RAM is typically the most sensitive component along with the CPU but both would have been at least somewhat protected from any surge by at least two levels the PSU overvoltage protection and the onboard Voltage Regulation Modual(s), but if the PSU paid only lip service to the p-rotection schemes it could have passed on voltage too far out of spec for the VRM to deal with
cheap surge protectors based on MOV can be worse than no protection at all, sine they can go bad and yet you still think your protected
RAM so test it http://www.memtest.org/
and drives > http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=761272
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=742083
and the CPU also test I use Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
finally regarding power conditioning
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs9.htm
RAM is typically the most sensitive component along with the CPU but both would have been at least somewhat protected from any surge by at least two levels the PSU overvoltage protection and the onboard Voltage Regulation Modual(s), but if the PSU paid only lip service to the p-rotection schemes it could have passed on voltage too far out of spec for the VRM to deal with
cheap surge protectors based on MOV can be worse than no protection at all, sine they can go bad and yet you still think your protected