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System won't boot after power outage

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LifeStealer

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OK so just another major hiccup the day before exams. After being cut off from my online homework for ~10 hours, I booted my pc back up and it just constantly keeps rebooting. BIOS doesn't even post. Everything was fine before the power outage. Tried reseting CMOS to no avail. Gonna start pulling things out to isolate tomorrow but wondered if anyone had any ideas what the problem could be. Video card is new (8800 GTS) so I'm thinking it might be there.
 
There was a blackout in your area? Do you have your system hooked up to a UPS because if not, there might have been a massive voltage fluctuation before the power failed which could damage components of your system, hopefully the capacitors around the cpu protected it at the very least.
 
Hard to say what the culprit is, I guess your only course of action left is to remove and place everything back in until it posts. How much time before the system reboots after it boots the first time?
 
Its pretty into it. Its on a surge protector too and its still showing as good (Although I understand that doesn't mean anything). I unplugged the aux power on the video card to see if the motherboard would react and it started beeping.
 
You should definitely get a quality UPS unit with the AVR.

I would not run a computer without it.

At least a UPS, but AVR is very important, too.
 
I know but I imagine myself holding a good UPS in one hand and a tb drive in the other. The tb drive always seems to win out 🙁
 
Originally posted by: LifeStealer
I know but I imagine myself holding a good UPS in one hand and a tb drive in the other. The tb drive always seems to win out 🙁
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The 1TB drive will always loose if the computer to which it is connected fails. 😉

 
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