Solved any harm in doing a force power shutdown?

visruth

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I'm little apprehensive about recurrent force power shutdown I had to do during past one week in my lappy. First, I had to do it while the whole system got stuck up following Prime95 stability scan when I customised blend settings for CPU 100% load along with 92% memory usage. Next time it was when the system freezed following CoreTemp startup (when I researched it through forums i could notice that the freezing issue is a bug in their latest version still persisting while running on win 8.1 OS). The last one was when I had to do when while shutting down normally I unplugged the usb connection from the port and system remained 'on' for unusually long time while screen had already turned off.
This all happened in the past week. I had bought this system just 2 months back. Could anyone tell me if there is anything to worry about or give some advice regarding it?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 Update x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 15
    CPU
    Haswell Core i5 4200U
    Memory
    8GB Dual-Channel DDR3L @1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 4400 Integrated; 2GB Dedicated NVIDIA GT 740M
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 840 EVO Internal SSD ;
    2TB WD MyPassport Ultra EHDD ;
    1TB TOSHIBA HDD
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    Deepcool X6
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    Logitech B175 Wireless Mouse
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    Microsoft Wired Xbox 360 Controller
This has been discussed on here before just recently.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Linux Mint 17.2
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satellite C850D-st3nx1
    CPU
    AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon (tm) HD Graphics 1.40 GHZ
    Memory
    12GB
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    AMD Radeon™ HD 7310 Graphics
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    Realtek HD
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    LCD
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    1366 x 768
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    Crucial M500 240GB SSD
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    Logitech M525
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    Google Chrome
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    None needed. It is Linux.
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    A/V UPS - Tripp-Lite Smart 1500LCD 1500 Va/900 W.
Forced shutdown is the least of your worries. W8 is pretty resilient as that is concerned. What's more important is why you have to force shutdown. Those testing and benchmarking programs push system to it's limits and even beyond so temperature and voltage readings have to be monitored continuously. I like to use CPUID HWMonitor because it has most comprehensive readings and records data in the period just before stoppage occurs. You can compare it's readings with AIDA, Speedfan and Everest too.
Last but not least, your system is stable when all of your programs work without troubles, not when Prime said so. It should be used just for troubleshooting.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
@broe23 sorry that I had to bring it here again then, I couldn't find it :(

@countmike ya I think you are right. new sw & technologies really make you hell lotta scared. I really didn't want my system to take all that load into it. read somewhere that stability testing is good to be done in a freshly installed system as a routine..:sarc: that stupid article made me do it. I had monitored it continuously though..prime95(blend & small FFTs in two simultaneous instances) for 6hour or so then did complete aida64 for 9hours - both didn't give any fail. Temp didn't go above 70degree Celsius. I'm not intending to anything more to my system:sick:
After the forced shutdowns I had done full chkdsk & sfc/scannow ...all were successful. Windows memory test mdsched.exe also returned positive result. I have no system performance issue.
but when I tried booting from cd Memtest86+ iso file, it gave me error saying unable to boot from cd drive. I had burned the image from windows inbuilt burner & by third party iso burner in 2 separate discs but to no avail. don't know whats the problem. mine is UEFI setup windows 8.1.

thanks guys for the response.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 Update x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 15
    CPU
    Haswell Core i5 4200U
    Memory
    8GB Dual-Channel DDR3L @1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 4400 Integrated; 2GB Dedicated NVIDIA GT 740M
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 840 EVO Internal SSD ;
    2TB WD MyPassport Ultra EHDD ;
    1TB TOSHIBA HDD
    Cooling
    Deepcool X6
    Mouse
    Logitech B175 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    10 Mbps
    Browser
    Opera v25.0
    Antivirus
    KIS 2014
    Other Info
    Microsoft Wired Xbox 360 Controller
Which program did you use to burn that disk ? It is more effective ti use USB memory for that. "Rufus 1.4.8" can install almost any .ISO on an USB and can be bootable of MBR or UEFI.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
I had used both windows disk burner & cyberlink iso file burner at two different occasions. But yielded same error. I don't have a usb at present.
As you said earlier.... Is it really necessary to test it with memtest86+? I had already tested with inbuilt memory diagnostic tool via mdsched.exe..ran two passes which were successful.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 Update x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 15
    CPU
    Haswell Core i5 4200U
    Memory
    8GB Dual-Channel DDR3L @1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 4400 Integrated; 2GB Dedicated NVIDIA GT 740M
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 840 EVO Internal SSD ;
    2TB WD MyPassport Ultra EHDD ;
    1TB TOSHIBA HDD
    Cooling
    Deepcool X6
    Mouse
    Logitech B175 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    10 Mbps
    Browser
    Opera v25.0
    Antivirus
    KIS 2014
    Other Info
    Microsoft Wired Xbox 360 Controller
I had used both windows disk burner & cyberlink iso file burner at two different occasions. But yielded same error. I don't have a usb at present.
As you said earlier.... Is it really necessary to test it with memtest86+? I had already tested with inbuilt memory diagnostic tool via mdsched.exe..ran two passes which were successful.
"memtest86+" is not 100% right either, should be used only when something wrong with memory is suspected.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
ya ok. thanks for the help cm. still didn't get why that boot didn't run in the first place...:sarc:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 Update x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 15
    CPU
    Haswell Core i5 4200U
    Memory
    8GB Dual-Channel DDR3L @1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 4400 Integrated; 2GB Dedicated NVIDIA GT 740M
    Hard Drives
    500GB Samsung 840 EVO Internal SSD ;
    2TB WD MyPassport Ultra EHDD ;
    1TB TOSHIBA HDD
    Cooling
    Deepcool X6
    Mouse
    Logitech B175 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    10 Mbps
    Browser
    Opera v25.0
    Antivirus
    KIS 2014
    Other Info
    Microsoft Wired Xbox 360 Controller
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