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I have a 5 years old speaker connected to the same socket extension with my desktop PC (i.e. Monitor & PSU). When I turn my speaker on after the PC was booted up, sometimes the monitor will blink for a few seconds and return to operation.
However, there are a few ocassions in which my monitor won't show up. I can still hear my CPU fan running but I noticed that:-
- I couldn't toggle my Num/Caps Lock on my keyboard
- I turned the monitor off and on but it just showing Analog/Digital alternately and finally a blank screen
I've checked the connection is tight but still couldn't figure out the problem. This only happens when I have my PC running and turn on the speaker after that but not the other way round.
In addition, if I've experienced the blackout, sometimes I can't even boot up my PC properly. That is, I turn off everything and switch on my Monitor & PSU only and I can hear the boot up beep as usual but my monitor is showing Analog/Digital alternately again and then total blank. I've to use the hard power button on my PC to shut it down and repeat the boot up sequence a few times again to make it work.
This is very frustating and I'm not sure whether it's the failure of my speaker/PSU/monitor. Any help is appreciated!
Hardware Specification
- Monitor (Samsung 2033)
- PSU (Gigabyte Hercules X 580)
- Speaker (SonicGear Ego 3nity)
Thanks for your valuable information @davidgo! Is it normal that the speaker behave in that way by pulling a lot of power? Can it happen for a faulty speaker? Does that mean the black-out was caused by the failure of PSU? – Zephyr – 2017-11-07T11:32:42.470
Without the equipment and tools we can only speculate. I'm not an Audio expert but looking at the speaker specs I would not have expected this behaviour - I did not realise the speaker was rated at 22 watts (which is not much) – davidgo – 2017-11-07T17:31:37.163