Recent content by JayRockets

I don't have a meter and have never done anything like that. Not ignoring it, just putting lower on my troubleshooting for now. Here's an update. Today I powered off the strip for 8 hours while at work. Came home, powered on the strip, did some stuff for 20 minutes, then powered up my PC and it...

That's what I thought it was, but no, disabled fast startup and hibernate and it didn't change anything. I don't think the battery is defective or the bios is corrupted, because the BIOS remembers my settings and my time. What I think is happening is akin to what happens to my TV when I...

Everything has lights on when they're off. Everything. Why? Why do I need a light to tell me that my TV is off. Know how I know it's off? Because it's off! Electronics consume electricity when off. I don't know how much, but it's more than zero.

I don't know how much power I am saving, but flipping a switch is easy enough so I do it. Or rather, I use to do it. i5-6500 ga-z170x-gaming7 2x8GB Corsair 2666 DDR4 250gb 850 EVO SSD 1TB WD Black HDD Sapphire r9 390 (set to UEFI mode) EVGA G2 650w PSU I'm going to try switching it of off...

Newly built PC. ga-z170x-gaming-7 motherboard. PC is plugged into a surge protector with an on-off switch. I like to flip that switch to save power. However, if I do, I run into problems on my next startup. Usually my pc will start to powerup, shutdown, re-powerup and display a UEFI window...