Thought I would make this post to remind myself of the damage that can be done when the electric goes, or there is a power cut. And also to make people who are obviously incapable of checking a little machine they’ve used for the last 18 years of their life, at least, aware of what can happen.

If you think that parsing your voltage to spare your machine makes sense, think again. If you provide too little voltage to your PC the consequences can be just as dire as if you fry it with too much power. A sudden absence of power can destroy data you have neglected to save or damage important system files. We do not have to tell you how much havoc such an event can wreak on your business’ bottom line or in your storehouse of data you’ve been keeping for multimedia enjoyment.

Along with that, the last router we had broke due to constant power surges and loss of power. I can’t find any information about the dangers of power surges and loss of power with routers, but I know that it did enough damage to cause the router to have to be reset every 3 days… and if the power ever went, I’d have to reconfigure it, which would take me roughly an hour. When we had it I seem to remember counting that I’d wasted over 20 hours of my life just reconfiguring the fucking router, because if I didn’t do it, other users would complain that it wasn’t working.

We’re using a new router now, but I imagine the same will happen to this one.

I’m sitting at a £1500 PC using an £80 router, that’s a lot of money wasted simply because of the power going on and off.

Funny how just when you think nothing could annoy you anymore during your day, something else pushes you that little bit further and you just snap.