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    Fault Power Unit?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by emike09, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    For some reason, when I plug or unplug my system from power, the system hangs and become unresonsive. When I boot, there are a butt load of corrupted files. I can be in the BIOS and it will do the same (- the corrupt files) Are we looking at a MB problem or a PS problem here? Anybody experience the same?
     
    emike09, Oct 23, 2008
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What condition is the battery in? I.e., how does the system do if you start it up with just the battery alone?
     
    Shyster1, Oct 24, 2008
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    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    The system performs alright with the battery out, but the issue is when the power plug goes in or out, which is hard to test responsiveness without the battery :)
     
    emike09, Oct 24, 2008
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    joegibbs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Lol if mike ever post something, nobody can really ever reply to it. Your questions are too hard emike9.
     
    joegibbs, Oct 24, 2008
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    have you tried reverting all your clocks back to stock.. take out the battery for about 2 minutes and leave the unit unplugged for 2 minutes. plug battery back in then plug unit back in. then go into bios and unplug once more.
     
    Johnksss, Oct 24, 2008
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    joegibbs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I'd say revert GPU clocks to stock, but not leaving the battery out and unplugged. Let me try that too.
     
    joegibbs, Oct 24, 2008
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    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    Yours too joe?

    I'll give it a try thanks johnksss
     
    emike09, Oct 24, 2008
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    np
    i just hope it helps....
     
    Johnksss, Oct 24, 2008
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    This is a total shot in the dark, but, I'm guessing from the discussion of clocks that you've been overclocking the system when these failures occur - correct?

    I vaguely recall seeing something a while back about overclocking causing instability on the PCI bus. Since the hdds are attached to the PCI bus, is it possible that instability caused by overclocking, compounded by the power surge, however slight, caused by removing the A/C adapter, could be causing the hard drives to corrupt files?
     
    Shyster1, Oct 25, 2008
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