We had a few power outages in town. A few planned, a few not. Hopefully, the power company has it all straightened out.
After a power outage, I received a call from a woman because their desktop computer wouldn’t power up.
The fix: I unplugged the power cord. Held the power button for about 30 seconds. Plugged it back in. Then I turned it on, and it powered on. I showed them what to do if it happened again.
Another victim of the outage was one of my laptops. It wouldn’t power up. It turned out to be the power brick and not the laptop. (The big rectangular part of the laptop power cord). My battery is shot, so the cord is the only power option. Luckily, I had a replacement cord.
Everything is plugged into surge protection power bars, but they are old, and the surge protection may have deteriorated over time. As I understand it, this can happen. Time to get some new ones.
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Hi Terry. Yes indeed those power bars with surge protection can fail after time and you have no way of knowing when the protection is gone. I invested in a wall outlet with surge protection ages ago and it came with an alarm function when the unit was not providing protection. Only required replacing once (not certain if it is still being sold).
As a user and promoter of UPS units (APC brand being number 1), hope you will pick up this practice yourself and advise others of the benefits a UPS, Mindblower!