Electricty Problem

WingZero30 · 7 Apr 2011 at 17:52

Hi guys

I need a bit of help.

Early in the day I was running Intel Burn Test on my Q6600 as I am trying to overclock my cpu further. At that time my mum started vacuum cleaning the home.
After a while the electricity went out. I went to check circuit breaker switches and found that they have remained intact and didn't trip to off position including the main switch.

After few hours electricty came back but went out again and switches still didn't trip. This has happened for about 3 or 4 times now. I would have thought that in case of overload, switches would have tripped but this didn't happen.

So guys what could be the problem?

WingZero30 · 7 Apr 2011 at 18:07

Many thanks for suggestions. This is what I thought aswell that the problem of electricty going out and coming back in is externally related.

The electricity provider is souther electric. Do you think it could be related to the company?

If there is powercut in my area, who would be responsible for restoring the electricity in my area as understandably different homes will have different electricity providers?

WingZero30 · 7 Apr 2011 at 18:16

Forgot to mention there is work going on of placing new gas pipes in my area and several roads have been blocked.

WingZero30 · 7 Apr 2011 at 23:22

SoSolid said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13005045

This could be the cause.

Cheers for the link. I live in Chiswick and seeing as my electricity provider is Souther Electric; spot on :cool:

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Biohazard said:
You overclocked the powerstation into a temporary black hole.