Turning off pc with power button

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Gabriel Rios

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So I have been having trouble lately with my new PC and have had to turn it off 6 times using the power button in 3 days! Now I know its bad habit and I plan on not doing it but had to these couple of times. My mobo is designed to protect from instantly turning off and it takes about the same time I do a proper shutdown when I do it with a button. These are the only times on planning to ever do this but do you think I already cause damage? And out of curiosity what hardware can be damaged?
 
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Windows XP and newer (don't know about *nix, mac os, or older versions of windows) allow you to specify what the power button does, and I think by default it does the same thing as using the shutdown option from the start menu, unless you hold it down.
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Gam3r01

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No real damage should have been done, most damage would happen within the hardrive if anything. So I would say avoid it, but doing it a few times is by no means bad. A friend of a friend that I play games with always shuts his pc down by the power button, hes only 14 and wont listen to reason, and after a few months of it hey presto, his pc wont boot again.
 
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Windows XP and newer (don't know about *nix, mac os, or older versions of windows) allow you to specify what the power button does, and I think by default it does the same thing as using the shutdown option from the start menu, unless you hold it down.
 
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