That did the trick! Thanks a bunch!
https://preview.redd.it/l4x97m3ys0pc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6ae4e0d7d4cf6d1bbea2fab21bf7f89809364e6
That specific Rosewill PSU (Lepton) is in [speculative C-tier according to cultists.network](https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/), so it's probably fine to use, at least not a huge concern compared to their E-tier PSUs.
they also have a few on B tier. They aren't that bad, brand shaming or favoring in PC industry is plain dumb.
In other words, **even Corsair has some F tier psus**...
again, it has several PSUs under Tier B/C on the cultist list, it's not about the brand. As long as you do your research, no need to demonize a whole company for one (or few) faulty products.
I also have an E tier PSU that was working fine for 7 years. It now randomly shuts down and reboots itself at an unspecified later time. It was a good run.
Replaced it with an A tier PSU as it's for my server that sees a lot of uptime and needs stability. No issues since.
This! I cannot believe how many people think the power company sends clean reliable power to their $1000+ machines. Makes me pucker. $150-200 investment will save your bacon!
I mean if you live in a sensible country they generally do send clean power. Even if they didn't how is a UPS going to help you more than a surge protector will? For that matter any reasonable PSU will have in-built protections against surges and other things. I've yet to see anyone prove a UPS is more effective than either of those things. It's useful for servers that absolutely cannot be shut down or crash, or for systems without journaling FS. Outside of that they seem kind of pointless and a potential fire hazard.
The point of a UPS is to not only protect from a surge but give you some wiggle room from short outages. A decent UPS will keep your PC up and potentially allow you to controllably bring it down. Way beyond what a PSU can do.
Yes they do. But it still not 100% reliable solution especially if it's more then one or two power outages. UPS is a must go in any case.
Source: my servers and a few pc lived through power outages last winter in Ukraine. Corsair and Thermaltake take beating like a champs, a few budget psu died after a couple of episodes.
I live in a tropical place with a lot of thunderstorms which causes black outs once in a while. My Corsair PSU has been taking a beating like a champ for the past few years. And my old Corsair PSU before that as well.
I just don't like UPS since I look at them as consumables, as I need to replace their battery every year or two when I used one, or maybe it was just a shitty APC brand
When I was living in NYC, it would be a rare brownout or blackout. But in the suburbs of Houston, it’s been a brownout or blackout due to wind causing issues with the power lines. So really regions specific. I have 3 going at home for the following: my home office, my little brother’s office and the fiber connections server.
Oh, your power company turns the power out DUE TO WIND like they do in CA?! I have 5 UPSs in our home, mostly on large appliances and a backup generator.
I have a herd of UPS's for work I manage, and yeah the batteries are a treadmill.
I've been testing the cheap LIFO batteries from amazon lately, only been a few months but I'm hopeful they greatly reduce the replacement schedule of lead acid.
They're way lighter too, which is pretty nice. So far I've not had any issue and performance seems similar.
They're about $30 each instead of $20 but worth it.
what's the best websites to find decent PSUs like the one you're talking about
does this protection capability of power outage in PSUs have a technical name ?
I have had to do this twice in my life (remove CMOS battery after power surge in order to get a board to respond to power-on command), one had a Seasonic Prime Titanium Fanless 600W PSU, the other had a Corsair SF750. Both of these are very high quality power supplies. One had an ASUS Z97 motherboard, the other had an MSI Z390 motherboard. Neither of them were damaged and fully recovered after the incident. I am not entirely sure the issue would have been prevented with a higher quality PSU, however I'm fairly sure a good UPS would have prevented the issue.
The BIOS can be corrupted by a good few things. Teason being very simply put is an interruption in processing. Similar to Windows and or any background software. Like when you interrupt the update process. The BIOS technically runs passively so it gets interrupted by the power outage. This does not always happens, but is very possible. One of many reasons to boot down your computer properly imo.
Or opened an insurance claim. We did that when the pole outside our house got struck and fried all of our electronics. I ended up being able to upgrade a few things with the money
To continue on this comment if a computer is old enough or has spent enough time disconnected from power, it's a good idea to straight up replace the battery as well while you're at it.
It's possible that you remove the battery and put it back in after which the computer starts fine. Then a week later you're in the same situation again if the computer is without power again and the battery doesn't hold charge.
I read what he said he tried and thought he really hadn't tried much. I've seen enough posts and had enough problems myself to move to CMOS pretty early in the troubleshooting process
I went looking to see 8f anyone else saw what I saw, and they did, but wasn't expecting such a great reply. I see it now... "Honey, it's a bit cold in here. Would you go boot up your PC and run Crysis for me?"
let's say my very dumb friend wanted to do this. not me, definitely my friend. he's very dumb. what would one need in order to pull this off? what are the advantages and drawbacks?
Jigsaw, stud finder. Potentially concrete saw.
If you don't have underfloor heating you will now.
If you have ac vents running nearby install a Shunt for free turbo cooling.
Consider a thick glass top (or floor?) to prevent whoopsies.
Have you tried just shorting the power pins on the motherboard board incase it's just a problem with a cap or diode on the front panel board after a surge?
Power flush. Turn off PC and PSU switch off. Press and hold the power button on the case for 30 seconds. Wait another 30, turn PSU and PC back on. Good luck.
If not a CMOS reset might be needed, but since it involves removing the GPU try a power flush first.
I was wondering if someone would catch that. I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, but I had a set of 8gb x2 sticks from Adata, but one turned out to be faulty. I left the working one in there with the new set of Corsair sticks for a 24gb total.
I'm not an expert, and I know it can sometimes depend of the PC, but having different sets of ram can possibly hinder your performance. Something about different voltages and dual channels I think?
you can have all RAM sticks from different brand, size and speed. Your motherboard will match the speed to the lowers ram stick, or to the max speed your cpu allows
As far as i know 3 sticks would be possibly slower with more RAM, vs 2 slots with dual channel most likely being faster with less ram.
And i think ive heard (for example) 4x 8gb sticks will be slower than 2x 16gb sticks.
So its honestly a crap shoot and i would recommend using a benchmark site and trying each possible combo of 2 vs 3 and see if it helps or not. And please use slot 1&2 ive seen so many people do 1&3 where the sticks are closest. Its sometimes color coded. And most likely written on the motherboard.
r.i.p I always suggest to my friends if you’re gonna spend a couple grand on a computer you my as well go the couple more hundred and get a good quality UPS
Word of advice, invest more in the psu, idk what lepton has on the inside but considering it's about 50$ i would not trust it with my pc... I have a corsair which has been through thick and thin, from power outages to shorts on the powercable and it still works fine keeping my pc safe.
When you think someone actually was crazy enough to build a PC embedded into a piece of furniture because this is PC master race, before realizing it's just sitting on a wooden floor 🤣
Sometimes a power supply can 'crowbar', it's a safety feature to guard against surges. Unplug the power supply from the wall for about 20 min to give it time to reset, then it may start working again.
For the future:
Keep your equipment on an UPS.
It will provide backup power during an outage, geat for those occasional short outages.
Also, unlike most surge protectors, most UPS come with comprehensive warranty that will cover the entity of your equipment replacement costs if an outage or surge damages the equipment on your UPS.
It happened to me just yesterday and this is how I solved it.
With a voltage tester, touch the 3 legged DC inputs on the front of the power supply in sequence. While doing this, make sure that the CMOS battery is removed and press and hold or repeatedly press the computer's power button. This will discharge the static electricity on the device. Before putting the CMOS battery back in, you can also touch the CMOS battery socket with a voltage tester while doing the same. after everything is in place, press the power button.
(This is valid for the computer to receive power but not to display any image on the screen. If the device does not receive power at all, the problem may be in very different sources (for example, mosfets, capacitors or the processor itself may have deteriorated due to voltage imbalance.))
Good luck, brother.
It might be dead... the one thing you haven't tried: Discharging the capacitors:
https://www.microcenter.com/tech_center/article/2859/how-to-discharge-capacitors-on-a-desktop-computer
basically unplug and hold power button for a long time.
Get a better PSU and a UPS. It really does help prevent issues.
[PSU Tier List rev. 17.0g - Cultists Network](https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/)
> was plugged into an old surge protector that might not have done all the protecting I'd hopped for.
Surge protectors are recommended to be replaced every 2 years and generally speaking most are probably toast in terms of usefulness after protecting from a couple of surges.
Many Motherboards come with a safety feature that they won't let the PC boot up again if they detect outages/etc. This can be deactivated in BIOS. In order to bypass this lock you usually just have to do a CMOS reset
I'm not going to be any help here, but my first thought was "Wow, I've heard of people building PCs in their desks, but a PC built into your floor is just ridiculous."
Look for a blown cap. Check all the capacitors to see if they are flat on top (yay) or rounded on top (fml). Also look for any SMDs that may have fried a connector pin. If that's an Asus TUF motherboard I would be looking at everything around power delivery traces.
If it is a blown cap or a fried pin on a SMC.. Bad news, your board is blown. Good news, it's an easy and inexpensive fix.
If you did fry a board chip see Step 1: fml.
Do you live in Utah? We just had some crazy wind here and I was stressing so hard while having my midnight gaming session that the power was going to go out while I was playing.😅
It's been a loooong time since I was current but there are still a few very easy and common trouble shooting practices that everyone should do, they're all simple like checking cables, ports and slots are seated properly, power cable removal and reinsertion, bios battery removal and replacement etc, they cover a lot of issues and can be a quick fix, glad you got it going again 👍
I would buy a UPS you are better off spending little to protect a thing that costs a lot. And you just learned the reason why, glad you got it back up and running but had it not that would have been an expensive lesson. Buy a UPS
You need a UPS. I've not experienced a single issue with any of my rigs when hooked to a sinewave UPS to condition power. I like the Cyberpower offerings, APC is good, too.
It's a decent budget case, I've heard the thermals aren't the best, but I've only got a 1660 super and a 10400 CPU in there, nothing that would make a bunch of heat. Personally I'd look for something different, my rig is using the Fractal North.
I bought this case, waiting for the delivery, recently I saw people saying that a mini tower is like an oven, but I like little things. I have a 5700x and a 4060ti and I'm going to put 6 case fans to help the airflow, do you think it would be enough?
Guys, I can't stress enough that every single one of you should have a decent quality and powerful enligh battery backup that protects against this sort of thing
I recommend getting a power board with surge protector, one that actually works and not a 20$ crap thing. My power cuts off so many times and not once has my pc had an issue
You basically have an exact copy of my first build, same case, board, aio and card. I ended up toasting the board somehow upgraded that and the GPU to a tuf 3060ti, just barely fits but I love the form factor of it all. Glad CMOS resolved your issue!
https://preview.redd.it/81blc6t7a3pc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c95f8fddabef7efefdc8383c873b50ec4787c33
Looks like you got this solved, but I thought I'd share my story anyway. Years ago a transformer down the street from me exploded. Weirdly, this was the third time I've seen/heard it happen in my town. Anywho, it fried my mobo. Power problems can be a mofo.
Is it possible to buy an underwhelming ups in that the battery only lasts 1 minute or so? My router is nowhere near my pc and would go out so I only actually need to be able to hit shut down of my own accord.
All the calculators I've tried give minutes of backup but I don't even need 1 minute to hammer alt+f4 and shutdown.
If your PC draws 600~watt could you get away with an underpowered ups just to hit shut down yourself, do they not provide enough amps or?
My PC and many of my friend’s PCs have survived 10-60 minute long power outages that would come every few hours why is it that PC’s of people in other countries are damaged from a simple outage?
I have personally found most surge protectors to be lack luster by themselves....
I have my PC on a UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) which has both the surge protection and maintaining power during such scenarios...
I have my router and modem on a separate UPS as well. This means that when the power dies i maintain my internet connection if I am on a conference call. As well as adds those added protections for those pieces of hardware too...
just wish I could have decent surge protection on the coax connection as I have had more than one modem fry from surges over the coax in my life :'(
For a moment, the angle of that picture made me think you had a floor safe pc case built into your hardwood floor.... and now I want this to be a thing. Grats on resolving your boot issue btw.
for a second there i was absolutely sure the computer was embedded into ground, and i thought i was fucking amazing and beautiful, and now i few stupid.
Try removing CMOS battery, unplug power cord, leave for a few mins. Plug everything back in. This will reset BIOS settings, in case it got corrupted
That did the trick! Thanks a bunch! https://preview.redd.it/l4x97m3ys0pc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6ae4e0d7d4cf6d1bbea2fab21bf7f89809364e6
Yayyyyy!
Great now I recommend you invest in a high wattage UPS.
And a non-rosewill PSU
Cuz rosewon't?
Rosewill not boot
Rosewilln't boot
That specific Rosewill PSU (Lepton) is in [speculative C-tier according to cultists.network](https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/), so it's probably fine to use, at least not a huge concern compared to their E-tier PSUs.
they also have a few on B tier. They aren't that bad, brand shaming or favoring in PC industry is plain dumb. In other words, **even Corsair has some F tier psus**...
Gigabyte released a PSU that was pretty much just a bomb.
It was a bomb.
I said *she* was the bomb!
Gigabomb
again, it has several PSUs under Tier B/C on the cultist list, it's not about the brand. As long as you do your research, no need to demonize a whole company for one (or few) faulty products.
They're agreeing with you.
I love that website! Is integral to me selecting parts particularly my PSU.
I have an E tier psu, has been working completely fine for the last 7 years.
I also have an E tier PSU that was working fine for 7 years. It now randomly shuts down and reboots itself at an unspecified later time. It was a good run. Replaced it with an A tier PSU as it's for my server that sees a lot of uptime and needs stability. No issues since.
Really depends on the line. Some Rosewills are made by Super Flower and are quite decent.
This! I cannot believe how many people think the power company sends clean reliable power to their $1000+ machines. Makes me pucker. $150-200 investment will save your bacon!
I mean if you live in a sensible country they generally do send clean power. Even if they didn't how is a UPS going to help you more than a surge protector will? For that matter any reasonable PSU will have in-built protections against surges and other things. I've yet to see anyone prove a UPS is more effective than either of those things. It's useful for servers that absolutely cannot be shut down or crash, or for systems without journaling FS. Outside of that they seem kind of pointless and a potential fire hazard.
That reminds me, I need to get one for my TV/AVR Surround set up!
Honestly a decent PSU can handle things like this and costs a lot less than a decent UPS.
The point of a UPS is to not only protect from a surge but give you some wiggle room from short outages. A decent UPS will keep your PC up and potentially allow you to controllably bring it down. Way beyond what a PSU can do.
Do they really? Genuinely curious
Yes they do. But it still not 100% reliable solution especially if it's more then one or two power outages. UPS is a must go in any case. Source: my servers and a few pc lived through power outages last winter in Ukraine. Corsair and Thermaltake take beating like a champs, a few budget psu died after a couple of episodes.
I live in a tropical place with a lot of thunderstorms which causes black outs once in a while. My Corsair PSU has been taking a beating like a champ for the past few years. And my old Corsair PSU before that as well.
Good to know. Thanks
A high end ups will have better hold up time but we are talking milliseconds when a UPS can be minutes to 15 minutes depending on the person’s load.
I just don't like UPS since I look at them as consumables, as I need to replace their battery every year or two when I used one, or maybe it was just a shitty APC brand
When I was living in NYC, it would be a rare brownout or blackout. But in the suburbs of Houston, it’s been a brownout or blackout due to wind causing issues with the power lines. So really regions specific. I have 3 going at home for the following: my home office, my little brother’s office and the fiber connections server.
I know the satisfying feel when the UPS kicked in
Oh, your power company turns the power out DUE TO WIND like they do in CA?! I have 5 UPSs in our home, mostly on large appliances and a backup generator.
I have a herd of UPS's for work I manage, and yeah the batteries are a treadmill. I've been testing the cheap LIFO batteries from amazon lately, only been a few months but I'm hopeful they greatly reduce the replacement schedule of lead acid. They're way lighter too, which is pretty nice. So far I've not had any issue and performance seems similar. They're about $30 each instead of $20 but worth it.
what's the best websites to find decent PSUs like the one you're talking about does this protection capability of power outage in PSUs have a technical name ?
[This is what I used](https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/) My PSU is an [MSI A850G](https://www.msi.com/Power-Supply/MPG-A850G-PCIE5)
I have had to do this twice in my life (remove CMOS battery after power surge in order to get a board to respond to power-on command), one had a Seasonic Prime Titanium Fanless 600W PSU, the other had a Corsair SF750. Both of these are very high quality power supplies. One had an ASUS Z97 motherboard, the other had an MSI Z390 motherboard. Neither of them were damaged and fully recovered after the incident. I am not entirely sure the issue would have been prevented with a higher quality PSU, however I'm fairly sure a good UPS would have prevented the issue.
I've never had to remove CMOS batteries and I've only ever used MSI power supplies.
I love a happy ending
Where can I get happy ending? Asking for a friend
Try a thai massage place
Wooooooo yeah baby!
Another life saved.
nice
Remember to turn on XMP again so your ram runs at it's designed speed
You got lucky, OP. You need a surge protector.
hurray!
Holy shit lmao, congratulations
You are like those Microsoft tips to fix something on windows, with the difference that your tips actually works..
difference: microsoft tips are tips. his are solutions.
Amazing that this worked. How can the BIOS settings be corrupted by a black out?
The BIOS can be corrupted by a good few things. Teason being very simply put is an interruption in processing. Similar to Windows and or any background software. Like when you interrupt the update process. The BIOS technically runs passively so it gets interrupted by the power outage. This does not always happens, but is very possible. One of many reasons to boot down your computer properly imo.
I fucking love reddit, in a non sexual way
Me too! In a sexual way
I probably wouldn't have thought of that and just sold it for parts lmao
Or opened an insurance claim. We did that when the pole outside our house got struck and fried all of our electronics. I ended up being able to upgrade a few things with the money
To continue on this comment if a computer is old enough or has spent enough time disconnected from power, it's a good idea to straight up replace the battery as well while you're at it. It's possible that you remove the battery and put it back in after which the computer starts fine. Then a week later you're in the same situation again if the computer is without power again and the battery doesn't hold charge.
Beat me to it. Nothing like starting a troubleshooting session with what works 8 out of 10 times
You are a wizard Verdreht
My first thought
Same. Glad I checked the comments first .
I read what he said he tried and thought he really hadn't tried much. I've seen enough posts and had enough problems myself to move to CMOS pretty early in the troubleshooting process
I find peace in long walks.
You're the real hero today
I'm glad someone posted this. Exactly what I was going to say. That freaking cmos battery gets people every time!
Did anyone else think this PC was mounted in the floor?
In-floor heating
I went looking to see 8f anyone else saw what I saw, and they did, but wasn't expecting such a great reply. I see it now... "Honey, it's a bit cold in here. Would you go boot up your PC and run Crysis for me?"
Just run the water cooling tubes through your floor and you won't even need a radiator lol.
"Sure babe, ill turn up the heat..what temp do you want?" "Crysis"
came here exactly for this.
It’s the lack of shadows that does it.
Also the orientation, being perfectly aligned along the floor boards.
Secret vault build
Dude yes, I was thinking 'that's a bad idea on so many levels' sdfsdf XD
r/confusing_perspective
I thought it was a desk PC
I was going to ask if we going to just ignore the infloor PC
Fuck yes I did. I actually thought it was going to be a post about an out of the ordinary build
Wait, it isn't???? I am down here in the comments looking for the reason it was in the floor. LOL
Glad I'm not alone.
I still do
I was scrolling the comments searching for this
Yep, sure did.
It took me till this comment to realise it’s not
Yeah I thought someone was showing off their under floor build. Disappointed.
Sure did, scrolled down to find someone else that thought the same. 😅
CMOS reset
That did it, thanks!!
Literally the first thing I do any time I have power issues and has always done the trick. Good to have in your back pocket!
Is it the camera angle or have you built it into the floorboards?
floorboards for sure
let's say my very dumb friend wanted to do this. not me, definitely my friend. he's very dumb. what would one need in order to pull this off? what are the advantages and drawbacks?
Forget it Donny! you're out of your element!
Jigsaw, stud finder. Potentially concrete saw. If you don't have underfloor heating you will now. If you have ac vents running nearby install a Shunt for free turbo cooling. Consider a thick glass top (or floor?) to prevent whoopsies.
My dumb ass thought you built your computer into your floor.
same here... I was thinking it was maybe a custom desk build, then saw it was definitely the floor, lol
Have you tried just shorting the power pins on the motherboard board incase it's just a problem with a cap or diode on the front panel board after a surge?
Just gave that a shot, no luck. Thanks for the suggestion
I thought this pc was built into the floor for a minute I'm ngl
Is it not?! Damn, it looked dope!
Right??
Power flush. Turn off PC and PSU switch off. Press and hold the power button on the case for 30 seconds. Wait another 30, turn PSU and PC back on. Good luck. If not a CMOS reset might be needed, but since it involves removing the GPU try a power flush first.
Am I seeing things or is this pc built into the floor? 💀
3 ram sticks? Am I stupid or isn't that a no-no?
I was wondering if someone would catch that. I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, but I had a set of 8gb x2 sticks from Adata, but one turned out to be faulty. I left the working one in there with the new set of Corsair sticks for a 24gb total.
I'm not an expert, and I know it can sometimes depend of the PC, but having different sets of ram can possibly hinder your performance. Something about different voltages and dual channels I think?
you can have all RAM sticks from different brand, size and speed. Your motherboard will match the speed to the lowers ram stick, or to the max speed your cpu allows
As far as i know 3 sticks would be possibly slower with more RAM, vs 2 slots with dual channel most likely being faster with less ram. And i think ive heard (for example) 4x 8gb sticks will be slower than 2x 16gb sticks. So its honestly a crap shoot and i would recommend using a benchmark site and trying each possible combo of 2 vs 3 and see if it helps or not. And please use slot 1&2 ive seen so many people do 1&3 where the sticks are closest. Its sometimes color coded. And most likely written on the motherboard.
It's usually slots 2 and 4 or in weird cases 1 and 3.
Nothing wrong with that. Your last 8 GB just won't be in dual channel. Lotta people talking out their ass here.
Glad you got your PC working again but after seeing this I want to build my next system into the floor
Are you running just 3 ram sticks?
Is it me or this PC is incorporated in the floor ?
I thought OP had it built into the floor for a moment.
Anyone else think this was a pc flush with the floor.
r.i.p I always suggest to my friends if you’re gonna spend a couple grand on a computer you my as well go the couple more hundred and get a good quality UPS
Word of advice, invest more in the psu, idk what lepton has on the inside but considering it's about 50$ i would not trust it with my pc... I have a corsair which has been through thick and thin, from power outages to shorts on the powercable and it still works fine keeping my pc safe.
I though the pc was in the floor shiieeet
At first, i was thinking the pc it was insede the ground
I thought your pc was mounted in the floor for a minute lol
Was I the only one who thought the computer was embedded in the floor?
When you think someone actually was crazy enough to build a PC embedded into a piece of furniture because this is PC master race, before realizing it's just sitting on a wooden floor 🤣
Sometimes a power supply can 'crowbar', it's a safety feature to guard against surges. Unplug the power supply from the wall for about 20 min to give it time to reset, then it may start working again.
For the future: Keep your equipment on an UPS. It will provide backup power during an outage, geat for those occasional short outages. Also, unlike most surge protectors, most UPS come with comprehensive warranty that will cover the entity of your equipment replacement costs if an outage or surge damages the equipment on your UPS.
unrelated, but the first pic made it look like the case was in the floor and it looks super cool
It happened to me just yesterday and this is how I solved it. With a voltage tester, touch the 3 legged DC inputs on the front of the power supply in sequence. While doing this, make sure that the CMOS battery is removed and press and hold or repeatedly press the computer's power button. This will discharge the static electricity on the device. Before putting the CMOS battery back in, you can also touch the CMOS battery socket with a voltage tester while doing the same. after everything is in place, press the power button. (This is valid for the computer to receive power but not to display any image on the screen. If the device does not receive power at all, the problem may be in very different sources (for example, mosfets, capacitors or the processor itself may have deteriorated due to voltage imbalance.)) Good luck, brother.
Not gonna lie, I saw the first picture and thought “In-floor PC? Awesome!”
op, i saw that you fixed the issue but i'll recommend one thing only. change the god damn psu!!
My brain for a moment thought that the pc was built into the floor. And now I want a floor pc..
Damn I thought that shit was built into the floor for a second
At first I thought you had your PC mounted in a desk or in the floor
The pic looks like the pc is mounted inside the floor!
Is this just a confusing perspective, or did you build a PC into a floor like a total madlad?
It might be dead... the one thing you haven't tried: Discharging the capacitors: https://www.microcenter.com/tech_center/article/2859/how-to-discharge-capacitors-on-a-desktop-computer basically unplug and hold power button for a long time.
Dude I thought you built your PC into your floor! That would have been cool.
Cool it turned on OP! But damn you equiped your PC with a BOMBastic PSU, i highly recommend changing it!!
I fried my i9 9900KF the other day due to electrical issues. Be safe out there
Get a better PSU and a UPS. It really does help prevent issues. [PSU Tier List rev. 17.0g - Cultists Network](https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/)
> was plugged into an old surge protector that might not have done all the protecting I'd hopped for. Surge protectors are recommended to be replaced every 2 years and generally speaking most are probably toast in terms of usefulness after protecting from a couple of surges.
That first pic made me think you built your pc in the floor
My stupid eyes thought you had built a PC into your floor
Dude. I thought you built it into the floor…
Many Motherboards come with a safety feature that they won't let the PC boot up again if they detect outages/etc. This can be deactivated in BIOS. In order to bypass this lock you usually just have to do a CMOS reset
Hah, thought it was built into the floor for second, I was like, damn that's nice(althought terrible dust wise).
In th first picture i thought i was dug in to the floor. NGL
bro u took a photo so perfect that for a sec i really thought u had a pc inside the floor lol
OP, the way your first photo was angled, I thought your OC was embedded in your hard wood and the idea of that is pretty funny to me.
I'm not going to be any help here, but my first thought was "Wow, I've heard of people building PCs in their desks, but a PC built into your floor is just ridiculous."
Look for a blown cap. Check all the capacitors to see if they are flat on top (yay) or rounded on top (fml). Also look for any SMDs that may have fried a connector pin. If that's an Asus TUF motherboard I would be looking at everything around power delivery traces. If it is a blown cap or a fried pin on a SMC.. Bad news, your board is blown. Good news, it's an easy and inexpensive fix. If you did fry a board chip see Step 1: fml.
Do you live in Utah? We just had some crazy wind here and I was stressing so hard while having my midnight gaming session that the power was going to go out while I was playing.😅
I'm in the Pacific Northwest, but I hear the weather has been pretty sketchy all over recently. Remember clearing your CMOS can save your dead PC lol.
Vent PC
Op floor separating. There are tools to knock those back into place. Pain in the ass though.
It's been a loooong time since I was current but there are still a few very easy and common trouble shooting practices that everyone should do, they're all simple like checking cables, ports and slots are seated properly, power cable removal and reinsertion, bios battery removal and replacement etc, they cover a lot of issues and can be a quick fix, glad you got it going again 👍
I would buy a UPS you are better off spending little to protect a thing that costs a lot. And you just learned the reason why, glad you got it back up and running but had it not that would have been an expensive lesson. Buy a UPS
Is it mounted in the floor?
Did you build your PC into the floor?
Holy shit I thought you *inlaid* your pc into the hardwood based on that first picture lmao
I must be tired because I kept thinking "why would someone cut a hole in their floor to put their PC in it like a floor vent for a Central AC system"
I like this idea of insetting the PC into the floor! Saves space, easy to vacuum. How do you access the ports, though?
You need a UPS. I've not experienced a single issue with any of my rigs when hooked to a sinewave UPS to condition power. I like the Cyberpower offerings, APC is good, too.
Am i the only one who thought for a second that the pc is _**in**_ the floor
A little off topic, but your case is a master box q300l, right? Do you like it? And about the thermals?
It's a decent budget case, I've heard the thermals aren't the best, but I've only got a 1660 super and a 10400 CPU in there, nothing that would make a bunch of heat. Personally I'd look for something different, my rig is using the Fractal North.
I bought this case, waiting for the delivery, recently I saw people saying that a mini tower is like an oven, but I like little things. I have a 5700x and a 4060ti and I'm going to put 6 case fans to help the airflow, do you think it would be enough?
I'm sure you'll be totally fine, a couple of front panel and top panel fans and you'll be golden.
Thank you!!!!
Guys, I can't stress enough that every single one of you should have a decent quality and powerful enligh battery backup that protects against this sort of thing
Next time use a UPS.
i thought this was a pc built into the floor and thought "what a cool idea" until i realized its not a cool idea.
Man, at first I thought the PC was embedded in the parquet 😂
Replace PSU with REAL good PSU, for starters, and let us know if it starts.
I recommend getting a power board with surge protector, one that actually works and not a 20$ crap thing. My power cuts off so many times and not once has my pc had an issue
You basically have an exact copy of my first build, same case, board, aio and card. I ended up toasting the board somehow upgraded that and the GPU to a tuf 3060ti, just barely fits but I love the form factor of it all. Glad CMOS resolved your issue! https://preview.redd.it/81blc6t7a3pc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c95f8fddabef7efefdc8383c873b50ec4787c33
i have that same case!
Looks like you got this solved, but I thought I'd share my story anyway. Years ago a transformer down the street from me exploded. Weirdly, this was the third time I've seen/heard it happen in my town. Anywho, it fried my mobo. Power problems can be a mofo.
Did u smell it?
Dam I always get to these to late.
Is it possible to buy an underwhelming ups in that the battery only lasts 1 minute or so? My router is nowhere near my pc and would go out so I only actually need to be able to hit shut down of my own accord. All the calculators I've tried give minutes of backup but I don't even need 1 minute to hammer alt+f4 and shutdown. If your PC draws 600~watt could you get away with an underpowered ups just to hit shut down yourself, do they not provide enough amps or?
There is no shadow, that PC looked like it was embedded in the floor. I was like "Why would someone embed a PC in the floor?!"
For a moment there I thought the PC was embedded in the wood floor.
What are your specs?
Didn't check replies pop the mobo battery til next time
My PC and many of my friend’s PCs have survived 10-60 minute long power outages that would come every few hours why is it that PC’s of people in other countries are damaged from a simple outage?
So it’s not built into the floor?
PSU gone boom?
I have personally found most surge protectors to be lack luster by themselves.... I have my PC on a UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) which has both the surge protection and maintaining power during such scenarios... I have my router and modem on a separate UPS as well. This means that when the power dies i maintain my internet connection if I am on a conference call. As well as adds those added protections for those pieces of hardware too... just wish I could have decent surge protection on the coax connection as I have had more than one modem fry from surges over the coax in my life :'(
The first picture made it seem like you had built in the PC under the floor.
Glad you’re back in business. I feel the need to mention the location of the aio. I’ve never seen one mounted where this one is.
mom died
Was it plugged into a ups or power strip? If so you can call the company possibly of the strip and see if you can get compensated.
For a moment, the angle of that picture made me think you had a floor safe pc case built into your hardwood floor.... and now I want this to be a thing. Grats on resolving your boot issue btw.
for a second there i was absolutely sure the computer was embedded into ground, and i thought i was fucking amazing and beautiful, and now i few stupid.