July 24, 2011
What happens if a computer power supply is less watts than needed when the computer is under load?
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Question by overtak3n: What happens if a computer power supply is less watts than needed when the computer is under load?
Will the computer restart, freeze, blue screen, any type of screen, etc? If it gives a screen what will it say on the screen?
Just curious because my PC freezes once in a while.
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Answer by blamay22000
Anything can happen including complete failure of the power supply.
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July 24th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Freezes, errors, glitches and corrupt data can all happen if you are running a system with a weak PSU.
July 24th, 2011 at 9:22 am
An underpowered system will freeze, restart, or just plain crash, with or without a blue screen. If you continue to use an insufficient power supply and repeatedly max it to the point of a freeze or crash, it will eventually fail and quite possibly take the motherboard and other components with it.