About 45 minutes ago, I was online, reading a story on ESPN, when a surge of power occurred in my computer room, either caused by the burning out of the lightbulb in the room, or some other phenomenon not known to me. Anyway, it triped the circuit breaker in the room, and, of course shut off the computer.
So, I flip the circuit breaker (btw, circuit trips happen in a room every few months in this place, so it's not that unusual, nor repeatable enough to be a concern). When I try to reboot, the computer just hangs, never posting, and I notice that both optical drives are going nuts. So I disconnect the optical drives, and try posting, and it gets to the post screen, but won't detect anything on the IDE (makes sense, since I just unplugged the power, not the IDE cable). So, I plug the top drive (my DVD burner) back in, and it detects everything, but the BIOS goes to safe mode, asks me to continue, so I do...Windows boots fine, etc.
So I shut down, connect the second optical drive, and it does the same thing...BIOS safe mode. So I go back in, reset all the overclocking options back to default, so I'm running at stock speeds, reboot, and it boots normally...no problems. I'm even burning a DVD right now, so the optical drives work.
So: What caused the BIOS to stop and ask if I wanted to continue when the computer was overclocked? Also, will going back to the overclock I've had for the last year+ (completely stable) cause problems now that may not have been present before the power surge.
What course of action for maintenence, etc would you take to make sure nothing was permanently damaged?
Thanks. (Yes, the computer was plugged into a surge protector too)
So, I flip the circuit breaker (btw, circuit trips happen in a room every few months in this place, so it's not that unusual, nor repeatable enough to be a concern). When I try to reboot, the computer just hangs, never posting, and I notice that both optical drives are going nuts. So I disconnect the optical drives, and try posting, and it gets to the post screen, but won't detect anything on the IDE (makes sense, since I just unplugged the power, not the IDE cable). So, I plug the top drive (my DVD burner) back in, and it detects everything, but the BIOS goes to safe mode, asks me to continue, so I do...Windows boots fine, etc.
So I shut down, connect the second optical drive, and it does the same thing...BIOS safe mode. So I go back in, reset all the overclocking options back to default, so I'm running at stock speeds, reboot, and it boots normally...no problems. I'm even burning a DVD right now, so the optical drives work.
So: What caused the BIOS to stop and ask if I wanted to continue when the computer was overclocked? Also, will going back to the overclock I've had for the last year+ (completely stable) cause problems now that may not have been present before the power surge.
What course of action for maintenence, etc would you take to make sure nothing was permanently damaged?
Thanks. (Yes, the computer was plugged into a surge protector too)
