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<blockquote data-quote="JakeXPMan" data-source="post: 911415" data-attributes="member: 29270">Made a nice Desktop PC buy for an early Birthday present. It&#039;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.[ATTACH=full]248177[/ATTACH]Well, the PC doesn&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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 &quot;go bad&quot; and I not know it? Could this be a reason for my old PC&#039;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&#039;m a bit confused here, or paranoid just don&#039;t want to cause a huge spark and smoke when I plug in my refurbished PC. lol.Thanks all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JakeXPMan, post: 911415, member: 29270"] 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. [ATTACH type="full" alt="PC 1.jpg"]248177[/ATTACH] 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. [/QUOTE]

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