Question PC Staying On During Power Outage

[mattyg1990]

Hi Guys!

So a few days ago, I had a severe thunderstorm where I lost power to my whole apartment for 2 days! Everything was not working. When the TV cut out and went black I pulled out the TV cable from the wall socket as well as the cable that's connected to the PC. The PC cable is connected to a power board surge protector which is then connected to the wall socket. So I pulled out the powerboard surge protector from the wall socket to protect the PC. At the time I pulled out the surge protector from the wall socket, I wasn't using the PC at all. During the 2 days with no electricity/Power, I couldn't use anything. When the power did come back on I reconnected the TV and powerboard surge protector back into the wall socket and as I did the PC just came back on as nothing had happened. All files and websites I was looking at were still on! The PC did not reset at all, the PC screen just came on. How is this possible, that a PC can operate with no power? It just doesn't make sense. Is there power coming from somewhere I don't know of. I have an All in One Acer Computer.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers for the help

Matt

 

[Deleted member 14196]

I thought the updated windows 10 has the capability to do this where you restart and everything is restored.

If it’s a laptop it could’ve been sleeping all this time

 

[mattyg1990]

Hi Mandark!

Thanks for replying. I am currently using Windows 7 at the moment. Would that make any difference? Its an all on one Acer Desktop, so I dont believe it has any internal battery (maybe i'm wrong). But the power was out for 2 days as well.

 

[OllympianGamer]

Sounds like it was in hibernation mode?

 

[mattyg1990]

Hi Ollympian Gamer!

Thanks for your reply. Does an All in One PC require power to be in hibernation mode?

 

[SamirD]

Hi Ollympian Gamer!

Thanks for your reply. Does an All in One PC require power to be in hibernation mode?

No, once the pc has saved to the hibernation file, it can be completely turned off.

 

[mattyg1990]

No, once the pc has saved to the hibernation file, it can be completely turned off.

Thanks SamirD for your response. Much appreciated

 

[SamirD]

You're welcome!