- Oct 20, 2014
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Made a nice Desktop PC buy for an early Birthday present. It's a Lenovo ThinkStation E30, with Xeon Quad core/8 thread 3.2GHz 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Win 10 Pro. + medium range Gforce graphics card for light/middle ground gaming. Total cost 115 dollars + 35 shipping. I think its a pretty good deal, for the Windows 10/1TB, etc.
Well, the PC doesn't come with a power supply... normally I always get a cord with my past purchases, but my question might be pretty simple......
Questions:
1. Are all PC's compadible with ANY standard computer power cord ? I have one attached and running my old PC now, but this PC suffered a faulty end to end error on the HDD, but I don't notice anything faulty with the cord itself... would this plug work okay anyway for my new PC coming soon ?
2. I also need to ask if a power cord could "go bad" and I not know it? Could this be a reason for my old PC's HDD errors ?
3. Can power outages, damage the power cord? (Even if plugged into a surge bar)
4. Is there a difference between Monitor and PC power cords? I do notice my monitor cords are darker, slimmer and have a lot of little ridged plastic design, covering the prongs. Once I plugged the Monitor cord into my computer, recently. Even when it was off.. a huge spark and popping sound happened. I quickly removed it, never again.
I'm a bit confused here, or paranoid just don't want to cause a huge spark and smoke when I plug in my refurbished PC. lol.
Thanks all.
Well, the PC doesn't come with a power supply... normally I always get a cord with my past purchases, but my question might be pretty simple......
Questions:
1. Are all PC's compadible with ANY standard computer power cord ? I have one attached and running my old PC now, but this PC suffered a faulty end to end error on the HDD, but I don't notice anything faulty with the cord itself... would this plug work okay anyway for my new PC coming soon ?
2. I also need to ask if a power cord could "go bad" and I not know it? Could this be a reason for my old PC's HDD errors ?
3. Can power outages, damage the power cord? (Even if plugged into a surge bar)
4. Is there a difference between Monitor and PC power cords? I do notice my monitor cords are darker, slimmer and have a lot of little ridged plastic design, covering the prongs. Once I plugged the Monitor cord into my computer, recently. Even when it was off.. a huge spark and popping sound happened. I quickly removed it, never again.
I'm a bit confused here, or paranoid just don't want to cause a huge spark and smoke when I plug in my refurbished PC. lol.
Thanks all.