PC, TV, lamp...all turn off when I am gaming

[Sketchazoid]

I have no idea where to ask this, and I am pretty flustered right now. First let me warn you this is a bit of a read but I think details matter a lot in this case. Anyone that takes their time to read this and attempt to help I want to thank you in advance.

My wife and I just bought a new bed and while we're waiting for it to be shipped to us we're temporarily using an air mattress that has a built in electrical air pump. Well my wife went to plug it into an extension cord and there was an electrical spark and it destroyed the wire on the pump. It didn't seem to effect anything else so we thanked our lucky stars and just accepted we had a broken air pump.

Fast forward to later that night I decided to play some games (Immortals: Fenyx Rising) and about 30 minutes after playing my PC shutoff. First time I assumed it was an a windows update I had been putting off. So I updated my PC and rebooted up the game. This time it was 10 mins after playing. Ok suspicious, I looked at my wires, made sure everything was plugged in, rebooted up my PC and tried again. Sure enough it powered off again.

Tried it with a different game (Resident Evil: Village) to see if it was the game, and I played an hour with no issue. Ok odd, but I decided to stay away from Immortals until I had the time to verify files and see what was going on.

The next day my wife and I were going to play Ghost Recon: Breakpoint together and sure enough the problem happened again. Multiple times after around 5-15mins of playing. I can surf the internet, stream video, all that with zero issues hours on end but as soon as I try to play a video game the problem occurs.

We went in the basement, checked the fuse box and saw a switch had been tripped so we unplugged everything and flipped it and it fixed an outlet that wasn't working but didn't fix my power issues with my PC. I moved my desk to a different part of the house and the issue still arises. Now I should point out that I originally didn't have my computer plugged into the power strip with everything else. It was plugged into the same outlet, but not the strip. So originally only the PC was turning off and not my TV, lamp, modem, router, etc. But now it's all plugged into the same power strip and now EVERYTHING connected to that strip turns off. We've unplugged the modem, lamp, and router and bought a new strip and the problem persists. My wife however plugged into the same outlet with the original power strip is have ZERO issues. She's been playing Ghost Recon: Breakpoint for well over an hour with no problems.

I have contacted an electrician but he won't be here till next week! I can't do much on my high-end gaming PC other than Netflix, YouTube, and Reddit. Any clues what could be the issue here?

If my PSU is fried and it needs replacing than why does my TV and lamp also turn off?
Is all my stuff just busted now? Using an outlet in the house not near those affected by the bed doesn't make a difference. Everything still powers off.

PC Specs
RTX 2080ti
i9-9900K
1TB SSD
16GB RAM DDR4

I am going to be upfront and say that I am not tech savvy by any stretch of the imagination. I am getting old and I am fairly new to PC gaming in general and have a very primitive understandings of the inter workings of my PC so be patient with me. Again, any help or time given is greatly appreciated it. THANK YOU!

[Zekiran]

I would be considerably more worried about the state of your home's electrical system, than the ability to play a video game, about now.

If you have not, open the computer and make sure that nothing looks burnt or smells weird. Your power surge probably did fry something.

I did live in a place where the wiring was so shoddy that I had to run extension cords from a different circuit in the house, in order to have my computer AND my monitor on at the same time, so... I mean.

Get your house wiring fixed first, because if that isn't fixed, your computer will likely suffer more...

[Iceira]

yeap we are back at laws and right and whos bill that is. im sure its owner, not leaser unless its mention in the contract.

[Sketchazoid]

Escrito originalmente por Zekiran:

I would be considerably more worried about the state of your home's electrical system, than the ability to play a video game, about now.

If you have not, open the computer and make sure that nothing looks burnt or smells weird. Your power surge probably did fry something.

I did live in a place where the wiring was so shoddy that I had to run extension cords from a different circuit in the house, in order to have my computer AND my monitor on at the same time, so... I mean.

Get your house wiring fixed first, because if that isn't fixed, your computer will likely suffer more...

As I mentioned above there is an electrician coming next week, so until I learn that trade there isn't much I can do in the mean time. Regardless, even though the wiring in the house needs some serious TLC I think my PC is shot and I am going to take the long long drive to drop it off at a PC repairman. So in the end both the landlord and I are both forking over cash and both issues are being taken care of. This post was a last ditch effort in hoping that someone had some magic solution for me. "Oh hey, that happened to me not too long ago. Here's how I fixed it!". Nope instead I got hit with the cold backhand of reality. "Ya broke ya sh*t bro, and your house is shoddy."

[ZAToM]

Escrito originalmente por Sketchazoid:

Escrito originalmente por Zekiran:

I would be considerably more worried about the state of your home's electrical system, than the ability to play a video game, about now.

If you have not, open the computer and make sure that nothing looks burnt or smells weird. Your power surge probably did fry something.

I did live in a place where the wiring was so shoddy that I had to run extension cords from a different circuit in the house, in order to have my computer AND my monitor on at the same time, so... I mean.

Get your house wiring fixed first, because if that isn't fixed, your computer will likely suffer more...

As I mentioned above there is an electrician coming next week, so until I learn that trade there isn't much I can do in the mean time. Regardless, even though the wiring in the house needs some serious TLC I think my PC is shot and I am going to take the long long drive to drop it off at a PC repairman. So in the end both the landlord and I are both forking over cash and both issues are being taken care of. This post was a last ditch effort in hoping that someone had some magic solution for me. "Oh hey, that happened to me now too long ago. Here's how I fixed it!". Nope instead I got hit with the cold backhand of reality. "Ya broke ya sh*t bro, and your house is shoddy."

did you download furmark? did your pc crash while running it for as long as it took the pc to crash when you play games?

[Sketchazoid]

Escrito originalmente por ZAToM - whats good in the HOOD:

Escrito originalmente por Sketchazoid:

As I mentioned above there is an electrician coming next week, so until I learn that trade there isn't much I can do in the mean time. Regardless, even though the wiring in the house needs some serious TLC I think my PC is shot and I am going to take the long long drive to drop it off at a PC repairman. So in the end both the landlord and I are both forking over cash and both issues are being taken care of. This post was a last ditch effort in hoping that someone had some magic solution for me. "Oh hey, that happened to me now too long ago. Here's how I fixed it!". Nope instead I got hit with the cold backhand of reality. "Ya broke ya sh*t bro, and your house is shoddy."

did you download furmark? did your pc crash while running it for as long as it took the pc to crash when you play games?

Nah. Mainly because even if it did I wouldn't know what to do with that information. Even if I could narrow it down to the GPU, CPU, PSU, etc I don't trust myself enough not to break it further. I bought my PC pre-built and it's done great for over 2 years now. Other than some light cleaning of the fans and whatnot I've been able to fly blind most of this time. Buying the freaking PC in the first place was a headache in itself. It took so much reading and studying to understand what a GTX this or that or an Radeon R-Core 7z 480 PQ MK.3 with a D68 do-hickey is. So I am going to stubbornly fork over the dough to an expert and accept I am a massive idiot.

[Washell]

If it's just stuff connected to the strip, and there aren't any tripped breakers, I'd replace the strip first.

[Sketchazoid]

UPDATE: Well turns out it wasn't the electrical wiring OR my PC. It was an external hard-drive I was using. I just bought it, Seagate 1TB USB Hard-Drive, and so I didn't expect that to be the culprit at all. I am not very tech savvy so what was probably obvious to someone else was not at all obvious to me. My other 1TB Toshiba USB Hard-Drive works perfectly fine, and I never experienced an issue like this where an external hard-drive would shut down the entire computer.

Funny enough, he didn't realize that was the problem until after almost 2 weeks of it being in his shop. I left the HDD at home initially not thinking anything of it, but brought it this week since it has most of my games on it. Sure enough as soon as we even plugged it in it caused the whole PC to shutdown and restart. We tried other hard-drives with zero issues but as soon as he plugged his own Seagate HDD he had lying around it did the same thing. After a day or more of testing I was able to bring my baby home and it works fine. 2 weeks of drama and $40 in the whole but I'll take that any day over replacing an expensive GPU or CPU.

[🍭󠁳󠁳⁧⁧Lalahti]

Escrito originalmente por Sketchazoid:

UPDATE: It was an external hard-drive I was using. I just bought it, Seagate 1TB USB Hard-Drive, and so I didn't expect that to be the culprit at all. I am not very tech savvy so what was probably obvious to someone else was not at all obvious to me.

Glad it worked out, for any future problems step 1 should aways be "what changes has been made recently"

[Sketchazoid]

Escrito originalmente por Lalahti:

Escrito originalmente por Sketchazoid:

UPDATE: It was an external hard-drive I was using. I just bought it, Seagate 1TB USB Hard-Drive, and so I didn't expect that to be the culprit at all. I am not very tech savvy so what was probably obvious to someone else was not at all obvious to me.

Glad it worked out, for any future problems step 1 should aways be "what changes has been made recently"

Fair point but and I will definitely keep that in mind. I think since it happened within the same day the fiasco with the air mattress happened it didn't even dawn on me that the external hard-drive I got days prior was the culprit. Now I know. lol

[🍭󠁳󠁳⁧⁧Lalahti]

Escrito originalmente por Sketchazoid:

Escrito originalmente por Lalahti:

Glad it worked out, for any future problems step 1 should aways be "what changes has been made recently"

Fair point but and I will definitely keep that in mind. I think since it happened within the same day the fiasco with the air mattress happened it didn't even dawn on me that the external hard-drive I got days prior was the culprit. Now I know. lol

Oh for sure, the spark was a fantastic distraction haha