PC doesn't work at certain outlet

Dee1991

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Jul 30, 2015
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First of all sorry if this is posted in the wrong section!

OK so I've got a weird problem.

I got a new cpu cooler, installed it tried to boot my pc up, and it kept restarting. Could only get into bios. After a while it didn't even display nothing and only got a black screen when booting. So I went to a friends house and still didnt work so we thought I probably damaged the motherboard by installing the cooler. So I bought a new motherboard and cpu and installed it at my friends house. Everything worked perfect. So I got home plugged the pc in at my room. And guess what. Same problem! Black screen. Only mouse lights up, keyboard stays dark.

So I freaked out of course. I took my pc to another room in the house tried to plug it in there... and it works.

Now... I've tried to plug in other devices in that same outlet which my pc doesn't work on. And they all work perfectly. Laptop, power line, phone.

I'm lost I'm too scared to try to plug in my pc again in that outlet. Weird thing is my pc worked fine on it before I installed the cpu cooler in my PC.

Any ideas what is going on??

Thanks


Current specs:

ASrock b85 pro4
I5 4460
R9 380 4gb
8gb ram
 
Solution
My first guesses would be either a loose outlet or loose connection elsewhere in your electrical wiring. I would start my measuring AC voltage at the outlet that "does not work" with 300W or so worth of loads on the problematic outlet to see how much the voltage drops compared to no load.
no seriously i would change you outlet, i think you outlet is broken, goto lowes homedepot some hardwarestore and get a new cost 2$ or less, could alos be your cable strip(i take it your using one for the rest of your stuff) monitore, speaker, chargers stuff like that.. try swapping it out.
 
My first guesses would be either a loose outlet or loose connection elsewhere in your electrical wiring. I would start my measuring AC voltage at the outlet that "does not work" with 300W or so worth of loads on the problematic outlet to see how much the voltage drops compared to no load.
 
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