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Turning off PC with power switch

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theduuudde

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So, I just got a new computer, which I set up. And like a complete fool. While I had it turned on for the first time, well it was idle and I was trying to figure out how to get the wireless adapter working not knowing I had not attached the antenna yet.


Anyways I shut off the computer while it was on, with the power switch on the back without going to start, shut down, etc.


I thought it might be the wireless adapter switch or something (because I'm stupid)

So......

Did I just fry my completely new and expensive computer....

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This is the switch I turned it off with the switch with the "O" and the "-":

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NO.but you will get a message saying windows dint shut down properly.select normal start.
HO! sorry and welcome the the forums
 
The odds are with you that nothing was damaged. Your windows system CAN become corrupted though if it shuts off in the way you just described or you have a power failure. I'd put my money on it starting up and working like a charm though.
 
I did that from time to time (because I want to switch off other stuff that right next the the computer's power socket). Never damage anything, but of course, it may cause data corruption, and not a good practice at all.
 
As the others mentioned you should be okay. Turn your computer on to check that out.
I'd like to advice you though, to NOT touch anything you don't know or at least see what it is first.
 
This is hard on the PC components but it should not have fried anything as it's a clean power cut off, as opposed to a brown out/power outage where it might see some spikes or other noise before. (this is why a UPS is very important... of course it would not have helped you here. 😛) At worse, the hard drive may have failed, but if you only did it once, you're probably ok. You will probably have logical damage though (corruption, and such) but a scan disk as suggested should fix it.
 
Most of the folks here probably know the things to avoid:

Freezes, such that you must press the "Reset" button to restart the computer.

BSODs, which require a hard Reset, or make the computer reboot after so many seconds

Cold shutdowns -- which means either pressing the front power button, or flipping the PSU switch. The former action would likely be less stressful to components than the latter, but an electrical outage without a UPS/battery-backup system would do the same thing.

For instance, if you "lose your mouse" or the cursor doesn't respond to movement, the first thing you'd do is press the "Windows" key on the keyboard, tab or click to the "Restart" option.

With a freeze, you might try the reset button next.

If the reset button has no effect, then hold down the power button.

If the power button doesn't work, you have only one option left: the rocker switch on the PSU -- which was the original topic of this thread.
 
You are in a good position - when the computer is idle, it may not be running some critical thing that would have been interrupted.
 
KingFatty said:
You are in a good position - when the computer is idle, it may not be running some critical thing that would have been interrupted.
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I had some problem with the sig-rig over several months, such that the computer would either reset or BSOD every 7 to 10 days. Several months of this! And certainly, I worried that eventually there would be hard-disk corruption. I was running SFC /SCANNOW and CHKDSK frequently toward the end of my misery. As far as I can tell now, the problem was either a driver conflict or excess demand on computer resources for enabling too much "extra stuff" in the BIOS. It's been some six months since the last episode, the machine running 24/7 with only occasional deliberate reboots.

So there was never any corruption or disaster. But I think you're likely correct: at idle, there should be less activity that would be interrupted.

The OP might just as easily have had a sudden power outage -- it happens to everyone and even folks whose UPS battery-backup has deteriorated so as to become ineffective in the situation that matters the most.

It's nice to see mainstream computer users so quick to worry about this sort of thing, though. I've known people who asked me to "fix their computer" because of an OS boot/system disk corrupted beyond either belief or possible repair. Investigating further, I discovered that they were in a regular habit of simply switching off the power-supply when they wanted to turn off the machine.

Apparently, they never made much progress in "PC 101" class, nor did they read the fundamental guides that are offered to any first-time PC user.
 
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