- Jun 13, 2012
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Hi,
I've got a fairly new pc (about 6 weeks old), which yesterday froze 2 or 3 times ... I think because it was struggling with Morrowind plus a number of other different apps I had running at the same time.
Anyway, stupidly I kept pressing the power button instead of reset (hadn't even occurred to me to notice where the reset button was) which didn't achieve anything, except that when I switched the power off and on again at the wall, my computer tried starting itself/ powering up 3 or 4 times in quick succession ... that is, switching itself on & then off again (apparently) several times over. At first I thought maybe the PSU had gone but after leaving it 5 mins and switching everything on again it seemed to be okay.
Anyway a couple of questions about this please:
(1) What was actually happening? I'm guessing, the power button sent a succession of 'start' signals to the MB, causing my pc to trip itself up?
(2) Could this have conceivably damaged it in any way? I run a BurnIn Test on it last night which it passed without any problems, but I'm kinda concerned in case I might have done some damage somewhere?
Also (2b) I suppose... if the answer to the above is "yes", are there any other tests/ benchmarks I should run to verify everything's okay?
Anyway thanks for any replies; motherboard & CPU specs are pasted below.
~tf
Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model P8Z77-V LX
Version Rev X.0x
Serial Number MT7023022501388
Bridge
North Bridge Intel Sandy Bridge Revision 09
South Bridge Intel Z77 Revision 04
CPU
Name Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Corsair TX 750W V2 PSU
I've got a fairly new pc (about 6 weeks old), which yesterday froze 2 or 3 times ... I think because it was struggling with Morrowind plus a number of other different apps I had running at the same time.
Anyway, stupidly I kept pressing the power button instead of reset (hadn't even occurred to me to notice where the reset button was) which didn't achieve anything, except that when I switched the power off and on again at the wall, my computer tried starting itself/ powering up 3 or 4 times in quick succession ... that is, switching itself on & then off again (apparently) several times over. At first I thought maybe the PSU had gone but after leaving it 5 mins and switching everything on again it seemed to be okay.
Anyway a couple of questions about this please:
(1) What was actually happening? I'm guessing, the power button sent a succession of 'start' signals to the MB, causing my pc to trip itself up?
(2) Could this have conceivably damaged it in any way? I run a BurnIn Test on it last night which it passed without any problems, but I'm kinda concerned in case I might have done some damage somewhere?
Also (2b) I suppose... if the answer to the above is "yes", are there any other tests/ benchmarks I should run to verify everything's okay?
Anyway thanks for any replies; motherboard & CPU specs are pasted below.
~tf
Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model P8Z77-V LX
Version Rev X.0x
Serial Number MT7023022501388
Bridge
North Bridge Intel Sandy Bridge Revision 09
South Bridge Intel Z77 Revision 04
CPU
Name Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Corsair TX 750W V2 PSU
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