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On the front of your PC are two areas in close proximity. Not easily targeted while blindly reaching around under the desk. One is for inserting USB devices, the other for rebooting. The latter known as the kill-all-unsaved-progress-zone.
Guess which clicked… #LFMF
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This is why you should never hook up that button. If it came hooked up, break open your system and pull the wire off the header. If you can’t do that, get someone who can to do it for you.
The blue one. The red one’s the trigger. The movie told me so…
I changed my power button to SystemStandby. (Saves everything, starts up instantly after..)
It’s the reset button. Goes straight to the processor’s reset line, so it can’t be changed. Just disconnected. Most cases for custom PCs have it. Honestly though, why do case designers insist on putting it by the USB ports? Mine is too. Stupid place.
Heck, I’ve got cases where the reset button is bigger and easier to press than power. (I’d blame faulty labelling on the connectors, except the power button has a light-up 1-on-0 power symbol in the middle.)
I also have one where the reset button is small and recessed, so you have to poke it with a fingernail. It’s on the only machine I routinely Do Bad Things To and actually need to reset….
This problem was annoying enough for me that when I built a new PC for myself last year I searched high and low for a case that was idiot-me-proof.
Found one with an insanely deeply recessed power button that is stiff and hard to depress to boot, and a teeny little finger-tip-poke recessed reset button.
2 days in, I did it anyway.
That a fairly new “feature?” I’ve only ever seen computers with a power button, and if that freezes you either have to hold it for a hard reset or reach around and switch the PSU.
That’s not new at all. It’s just that some computer have it, and others don’t.
Before changing any computer configuration (which includes adding storage drives), makes sure all your work is saved.
A computer is a lot more likely to crash when it has to setup new hardware than at any other time.
There, just saved you, and your IT, hours of fun!
^THIS.
Also, system restore >create a restore point, esp before installing new software.
Assuming its a Windows OS. Some of us run a Linux OS
Check for temp files. You can often retrieve most of the lost work.
You shouldn’t have more than a few minutes of unsaved progress. Learn how to use a computer, dumba**.