I apologize for the following wall of text, but I was trying to be as accurate as possible..
I had a really brief power outage recently as the result of someone flipping my wall switch "off" and then "on" within a few seconds. The first thing I thought of was a potential power surge and my fears were highlighted by the fact that when I turned the desktop back on, nothing was appearing on the screen - a clear indicant that the motherboard wasn't running its POST tests..
I couldn't reset the computer any other way so I turned it off by holding the power button and restarting - same result for about 3 attempts. Finally I decided to turn off the the Power Supply (then back on) and that did the trick. I saw the POST test run and my OS loaded.
But I'm a little confused as to why I needed to reset the power supply first before I got any functionality back and also if I did any major damage..
Just a little background info, the PSU is a ThermalTake ToughPower 850w, and its suppose to have some over-voltage protection. The PSU is plugged into a surge protection power strip - but the strip is about 10+ years old (so I wasn't sure if its ability to protect against surges is still viable).
Do you have recommendations on what tests I can run to determine if any problems occured as a result of the power outage? (Tests on components or the motherboard itself.)
I'm running on a Asus m3n78 pro. It has a boot setting config in BIOS called "Halt On" and its setting was for "all" (errors I assume?). Since I just ran into a bad shut-down procedure (the power outage) would that suffice to create a "Halt" situation, and would that create the scenario where-in the MoBo wasn't running its POST tests until the PSU was reset?
Do motherboards retain faulty settings or error settings as a result of crashes or power outages? Would that be a logical explanation as to why I had to turn-off the PSU, in order to dissipate any remaining electricity and thereby remove the errors (since the errors are stored by electrical signal) ?
Its been 4 days since the power outage. Since the PSU reset, the PC has been working just fine. It hasn't stalled. It starts and shuts down completely without issue.
I had a really brief power outage recently as the result of someone flipping my wall switch "off" and then "on" within a few seconds. The first thing I thought of was a potential power surge and my fears were highlighted by the fact that when I turned the desktop back on, nothing was appearing on the screen - a clear indicant that the motherboard wasn't running its POST tests..
I couldn't reset the computer any other way so I turned it off by holding the power button and restarting - same result for about 3 attempts. Finally I decided to turn off the the Power Supply (then back on) and that did the trick. I saw the POST test run and my OS loaded.
But I'm a little confused as to why I needed to reset the power supply first before I got any functionality back and also if I did any major damage..
Just a little background info, the PSU is a ThermalTake ToughPower 850w, and its suppose to have some over-voltage protection. The PSU is plugged into a surge protection power strip - but the strip is about 10+ years old (so I wasn't sure if its ability to protect against surges is still viable).
Do you have recommendations on what tests I can run to determine if any problems occured as a result of the power outage? (Tests on components or the motherboard itself.)
I'm running on a Asus m3n78 pro. It has a boot setting config in BIOS called "Halt On" and its setting was for "all" (errors I assume?). Since I just ran into a bad shut-down procedure (the power outage) would that suffice to create a "Halt" situation, and would that create the scenario where-in the MoBo wasn't running its POST tests until the PSU was reset?
Do motherboards retain faulty settings or error settings as a result of crashes or power outages? Would that be a logical explanation as to why I had to turn-off the PSU, in order to dissipate any remaining electricity and thereby remove the errors (since the errors are stored by electrical signal) ?
Its been 4 days since the power outage. Since the PSU reset, the PC has been working just fine. It hasn't stalled. It starts and shuts down completely without issue.
