Is it bad if your computer shuts off while a power outage?

Question

Yesterday my city had a power outage it lasted only like 2 seconds i was using the computer and it shut off its acting slow now and the next day it was acting a little slow too is this bad for my compute?!thanks.

Answer 1

Generally speaking an outage doesn't cause much harm to your computer. You may lose partial data when you for example have a word file open that hasn't been saved yet, and even then it can recover since the last 'auto-save'

If you have frequent outages it may be handy and wise to buy a battery backup. Battery backups keeps your computer running and protects it from surges/spikes, which can blow up your computer/monitor/printer etc.

Defraging your disk does nothing for files that are corrupt it re-aligns for harddisk sector for improved performance. You may run chkdsk, but this checks the integrity of your disk.

HTH

Answer 2

Power loss typically isn't a problem, its the resurge that spikes the line when the power comes back on that can get nasty. The power supply has some resilience but it is very little, which is why surge protection is very important. If power outages and or brownouts (drops in current but not a complete loss) that occur often, you may really want to pickup a personal UPS. I have seen everything from power supplies, to motherboards and processor to ram and even HD's get fried from power issues. At a minimum, use a good surge protector.

Others above are right though, on the data side of things, chances are extremely high that there was some data loss since the system went down in mid stream. A scandisk / file system check and a defrag would more than likely help. I would run the scandisk first before I ran the defrag. Doesn't make sense to organize problem files....

Answer 3

It is something that happens; files can be less efficient and some data loss may have happened.

I suggest you run a defrag (even if the preliminary analysis suggests it is not needed). It may help.

Answer 4

permanently a shut-down during a system process is a horrible problem , but it also depends upon your chance & the process which was been doing.

Answer 5

I'm not really sure if it's bad for your computer.
It's bad for me if I'm on Yahoo Answers and lose power.

Answer 6

for sure you get errors.
run a test with Ccleaner (free program) http://www.ccleaner.com/
that also will clean your pc of many mistakes.