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    Re: Computer won't turn on after power outage; details inside.
    « Reply #15 on: December 23, 2010, 05:57:12 PM »
    I don't know for sure CC.

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    Re: Computer won't turn on after power outage; details inside.
    « Reply #16 on: December 23, 2010, 06:07:55 PM »
    OP tested the PSU & +5V is dead.  See Reply #3.

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    Re: Computer won't turn on after power outage; details inside.
    « Reply #17 on: December 24, 2010, 10:06:27 AM »
    Yeah I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in first thing but alas, no luck.

    Do you think perhaps it had to do with the fact my computer was overheated while running at idle (for reasons I never could figure out) and ran constantly for four years straight and performed heavy tasks for it's build on top of all of this continually that might of contributed to it's break down when the power outage hit my side of the city?  It was really starting to get unstable a month before it died and I asked the neighbors and none of them had any of their electrical equipment damaged from the power outage.

    I'm certain I pushed it too hard for far too long and am not mad at it that it died on me because it performed good all things considered and I was expecting it to die on me a month or two before it croaked.
    « Last Edit: December 24, 2010, 10:18:24 AM by corlenbelspar »

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    Re: Computer won't turn on after power outage; details inside.
    « Reply #18 on: December 24, 2010, 10:50:11 AM »
    Probably just wore out & the power surge did it in.  The outcome of power surges & lightning strikes are impossible to predict.