power surge

  1. Sound not working and also unknown usb devices with surge issue

    Hey I've a Lenovo m73 tower work station.. Recently after a fresh window install, My sound output is not working.. It just shows no output devices found even though I've a internal speaker and headphone pluged in.. After that I also had issue with usb port as usb devies are not working. I've...
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    Windows 10 Can you run windows fix mbr within windows?

    Hi, Has some strange issue today, windows 10 laughingly did an update and I still don't know how to stop it from doing whatever it bleeping feels like on that front, but during reboot the computer turned itself off, bios then claims there was a power surge (very possible been extremely windy in...
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    Windows 10 Router name

    A power surge knocked out our ASUS router so I replaced it with a LinkSys. It's been working fine, no complaints, except that my Win 10 desktop still displays the network connection (wired) with the ASUS router name. I would like to change it to remind me that it's a new router. Firstly, should...
  4. Windows 10 Power Surge on the USB Port

    My brand new Alienware laptop just started spamming me this notification. Power surge on the usb port. It tells me to unplug all my usbs n i do, it just keeps sending the notification over and over again. The two usb ports on the left no longer work, but the one on the right works fine. the only...
  5. Windows 10 Power Surge on the USB Port

    I recently purchased and starting using the alienware 17.3. Using two of the usbs, i put in my logitec mouse, and hyper x headphones. I got an error that said power surge to the usb port. I looked it up and uninstalled the software. It didnt work. The one usb on the right works, but the two on...
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    Windows 7 Please help! Windows 7 starts to load logo and then reboots and goes to startup repair

    I apoligize in advance as I am new to this forum if this is not the correct location to post my issue. I am currently working on my fathers desktop which is a Dell XPS 400. He had a recent power surge which killed his power supply. We ordered a new power supply installed it and now once we boot...
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    Windows 7 Moved external HDD to a PC after power surge

    So I had a power surge a few days ago and it fried a lot of devices in my house including my external HDD controller/charger so I removed the HDD from it's case and mounted it in my PC. So far so good, it was recognised in BIOS, my primary Master and my former ext.HDD Slave, boots up ok but when...
  8. Windows 7 Can Install 32-bit But Not 64-bit?

    Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...
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    Windows 7 reason for format request

    I'm running windows 7 (Release candidate) and I have a usb that is requesting a format and certain occurred as a result of the usb getting an electric shock. How? I had the usb plugged into my laptop while it was switched on and I plugged in an ethernet cable to the laptop. It happened as I...