Treedude
Harvester
Ok so this post won't be the most specific until wednesday but I'll put as much as I can atm.
Few days ago, 5 minutes before i left my flat to come home for a week, my computer randomly switched itself off (never done that before and ive had it on pretty much all the time for ~2 years now). I reached round the back and flicked the power switch on the comp on and off again and it started up fine, booted into windows no problem.
Here is where it gets sketchy as I had to leave for my train so I'm just repeating what my flatmate told me (or at least as much as i can remember). Apparently it did the same later on except this time it didn't turn back on and the fuse in the plug had blown. My flatmate replaced the 3A fuse with another 3A one but it did the same again. I'm gonna bring a 5A fuse back up with me and try that but I was wondering if anyone has any idea as to what could be causing this?
I'm almost 100% certain I have the computer plugged into my surge protection multiblock (i'm fairly sure it is, can't confirm til i get back to my flat on wednesday tho), but I was wondering if it was just a freak day for my electrics or does it sound like a PSU problem or what? I'm really lost in this area, don't have a clue about power problems
Sorry if the information isn't all that specific but I wanted to post this up now and see if I could get the ball rolling with knowing how to fix it, minimise the time I don't have a PC seen as thats my main source of entertainment
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks
Few days ago, 5 minutes before i left my flat to come home for a week, my computer randomly switched itself off (never done that before and ive had it on pretty much all the time for ~2 years now). I reached round the back and flicked the power switch on the comp on and off again and it started up fine, booted into windows no problem.
Here is where it gets sketchy as I had to leave for my train so I'm just repeating what my flatmate told me (or at least as much as i can remember). Apparently it did the same later on except this time it didn't turn back on and the fuse in the plug had blown. My flatmate replaced the 3A fuse with another 3A one but it did the same again. I'm gonna bring a 5A fuse back up with me and try that but I was wondering if anyone has any idea as to what could be causing this?
I'm almost 100% certain I have the computer plugged into my surge protection multiblock (i'm fairly sure it is, can't confirm til i get back to my flat on wednesday tho), but I was wondering if it was just a freak day for my electrics or does it sound like a PSU problem or what? I'm really lost in this area, don't have a clue about power problems
Sorry if the information isn't all that specific but I wanted to post this up now and see if I could get the ball rolling with knowing how to fix it, minimise the time I don't have a PC seen as thats my main source of entertainment
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks